Answer to "Befoul" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TAINT which also is the latest solution we found used in King Syndicate in 2009.

Befoul crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
TAINT	25 %	5
POLLUTE	25 %	7
STINKUP	25 %	7
SOIL	25 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Befoul

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• defile
• foul
• maculate
• foul up
• putrefy
• pollute
• overfoul
• beray
• befilth
• befile
• slur
• filthify

Crossword Answer definitions

TAINT noun

1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
2. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
3. Tincture; hue; colour
4. Infection; corruption; deprivation
5. A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

TAINT verb

1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
2. To spoil (food) by contamination.
3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
5. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
6. To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

TAINT noun

1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

TAINT verb

1. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
3. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

TAINT noun

1. The perineum.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result TAINT

• Contaminate
• Perineum, slangily
• Sully
• "___ so!"
• Besmirch
• Blacken
• Discolor
• Spoil
• Pollute
• Render impure

More clues leading to the result POLLUTE

• "Give a hoot, don't ___"
• What clean energy doesn't do
• Foul the air
• Defile
• Taint
• Foul
• Contaminate
• Litter, say
• Contaminate, as water
• What Woodsy Owl asked you not to do

More clues leading to the result STINKUP

• Make olid
• Befoul

More clues leading to the result SOIL

• Make dirty
• Earth
• Planting medium
• Potting need
• Erosion loss
• Pollute
• Get dirty
• Dirty
• Gardener's medium
• Planter's medium