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befiled

befiled is the simple past and past participle of befile.

Meaning of befile

Verb

befile (third-person singular simple present befiles, present participle befiling, simple past and past participle befiled)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete, transitive) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
    Synonyms:
    befoul, defile, foul, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befilth

Questions about befiled

What is befiled the simple past and past participle of?
Befiled is the simple past and past participle of befile.

Words near befiled in the dictionary

  1. befie
  2. befied
  3. befies
  4. befight
  5. befile
  6. befiled
  7. befiles
  8. befiling
  9. befilleted
  10. befilm
  11. befilmed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: befiled (page history and authors); befile (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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