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defoul en · VERB

Inherited from Middle English defoulen, from Old French defouler.

(obsolete) To trample underfoot.
- And so whanne they had horsed the kynges ageyne they drewe hem al xj kynges to gyder and said they wold be reuenged of the dommage that they had taken that day / The meane whyle cam in syr Ector with an egyr countenaunce / and found Vlfyus and Brastias on foote in grete perylle of deth that were fowle defoyled vnder horsfeet 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
(obsolete) To physically crush or break.
- Then Sir Galahad began to break spears marvelously, that all men had wonder of him; for he there surmounted all other knights, for within a while he had defouled many good knights of the Table Round save twain, that was Sir Launcelot and Sir Percivale. 1922, Charles Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5:
(obsolete) To oppress, keep down.
(obsolete) To defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
defouls	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
defoil		alternative	lexicographic
defouled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
defouled	Tense=Past		lexicographic
defouling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
defoyle		alternative	lexicographic