Meanings of befoul in English

With your own good name gone, you have wished to befoul mine.

They may befoul our names, but they can not stop our praying.

He shall not know he hath not seen the beauty he would befoul.

God forgive me, I was about to befoul the very salt I eat.

Yes, too nice for you to befoul even with your tongue.

Must I then suffer these infidels to befoul my garden?

You see I have put gloves on, that I may not befoul myself by touching you.

To befoul and smear th'exalted name

One must sometimes stand speechless before a subject, else burn his lips with blasphemy or befoul them with billingsgate.

Would Kitchener, whose dread name strikes terror to the heart of every burgher, would he befoul his foeman's fame?

Just as well she won't be out trying to befoul me little lifeboat or taking brooms or bricks to me.

Can anything be so bad as the living bush which bleeds and talks, or the Harpies who befoul Aeneas's dinner?

We degrade the human body, we befoul the habits of nature, we desecrate life, teaching evil and foolish falsehood to our defenceless little children.

Thus she might have been expected to befoul her room, yet never could anyone, whether man or beast, have shown more nicety in such matters.

Marry, thy jerkin is all befouled with the dust of the road.

The mist was melting into a yellowish drizzle, befouling the muddy streets.