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befoul

C2 verb

befoul /bɪˈfaʊl/ nghĩa là làm bẩn, làm ô uế, làm ô nhiễm

Các nghĩa

  1. làm bẩn, làm ô uế, làm ô nhiễm

    To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

    literally

    Only the four walls of his home still stood, blackened and smoking with the sluggish, stinking smoke that befouled the sea-wind.

  2. bôi phân, làm bẩn bằng phân

    To defecate on, to soil with excrement.

    literally · specifically

    For its an ill Bird will befoule her own Nest […]

    “[…] But pray what smell is that? Sure your lapdog has befoul’d himself;—let me catch hold of the nasty cur, I’ll teach him better manners.”

  3. làm ô nhục, làm hoen ố

    To stain or mar (e.g., with infamy or disgrace).

    figuratively

    There she sits before you, gentlemen, betrayed by her husband, befouled by every idle tongue that wags […]

  4. làm vướng, làm vướng víu

    To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

    figuratively

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