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befiles

befiles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 befiles

What is befiles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Befiles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of befile.

Words near befiles in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: befiles (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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