Usually means: Making dirty or contaminating something.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word befouling:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. befouling: Merriam-Webster
  2. befouling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. befouling: Vocabulary.com
  4. befouling: Wordnik
  5. befouling: Wiktionary
  6. Befouling, befouling: Dictionary.com
  7. Befouling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Befouling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. befouling: FreeDictionary.org
  10. befouling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. befouling: Legal dictionary

(Note: See befoul as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (befoul)

verb:  To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
verb:  (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
verb:  (figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
verb:  To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
▸ Also see befoul


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