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befiling

befiling is the present 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 befiling

What is befiling the present participle of?
Befiling is the present participle of befile.

Words near befiling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: befiling (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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