Meanings
present singular third person befilths · participle present befilthing · participle past befilthed · past befilthed
- raretransitiveTo cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.
1890, Albert Kimsey Owen, Integral Co-operation at Work ... - Page 1051 more example
Shall he be crest-fall'n, if some looser brain, In flux of wit uncivilly befilth His slight composures? Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath From Hatred's surfeit on his labour's front? Nay, say some half a dozen rancorous [...]
1922, Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams, The Jonson Allusion-bookSynonyms: bedirty, befoul, foul, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood)
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
Origin
From be- (“on, about, all over”) + filth.
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befilth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/befilth
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