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befile

verb

Etymology

From Middle English befilen, from Old English befȳlan (“to befoul, defile, make dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *bifūlijan (“to make foul”), equivalent to be- + file. Cognate with Scots befile (“to befile”), West Frisian befûlje (“to dirty”), Dutch bevuilen (“to soil, dirty”), German Low German befulen (“to soil, pollute”). See also defile.

  1. inherited from *bifūlijan✻ — “to make foul”
  2. inherited from befȳlan — “to befoul, defile, make dirty”
  3. inherited from befilen

Definitions

  1. To make filthy

    To make filthy; befoul; soil.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for befile. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA