Sentence example with the word 'befoul'

befoul

abuse, condemn, defalcate, disadvantage, do wrong by, hex, menace, mistreat, pilfer, savage, tarnish, wrong

Definition v. spot

Last update: October 17, 2015

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The reason for this is that in it the slag, by means of which all the purification must needs be done, is not heated effectively; that hence it is not readily made thoroughly liquid; that hence the removal of the phosphoric slag made in the early dephosphorizing stage of the process is liable to be incomplete; and that hence, finally, the phosphorus of any of this slag which is left in the furnace becomes deoxidized during the second or deoxidizing stage, and is thereby returned to befoul the underlying steel.   [Please select]

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Whoever is attacked by an "early Christian" is surely _not_ befouled.   [Please select]

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With your own good name gone, you have wished to befoul mine.   [Please select]

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His face is like the bottom of a saucepan that the fire has gradually befouled.   [Please select]

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God forgive me, I was about to befoul the very salt I eat.   [Please select]

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They had just been reconnoitering the rooms befouled with the night's saturnalia, and were ha-haing boisterously over Captain von Hartrott's inscription, "Bitte, nicht plundern."   [Please select]

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