befile

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make filthy; befoul; soil. dialectal,obsolete,transitive

词形变化

befiles present,singular,third-person befiling participle,present befiled participle,past befiled past

词源

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.
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