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The state of being polluted
Answer for the clue "The state of being polluted ", 10 letters:
befoulment
Word definitions for befoulment in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being polluted [syn: defilement , pollution ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of befouling; soiling; making dirty. 2 That which makes or has been made soiled.
Usage examples of befoulment.
Roelstra had had the power to order the befoulment of the Earth itself.
She became less than an animal—a mindless, frenzied thing writhing on the ground in her own befoulment.
Remembering the chamber pot that had shrapnelled over his head, Doyle gingerly felt his hair—but it seemed clean, and it occurred to him that he must have left the befoulment back in 1684 along with the borrowed clothes.
Anyone caught in the vicinity of such an utterance was in peril of befoulment.
I shrank inside and out from the fog and what it held-so alien to my flesh and spirit that to come even this close to it was befoulment beyond the finding of words.
If the Creator were to silence Lord Foul, that act would destroy Time-and then the Despiser would be free in infinity again, free to make whatever befoulments he desired.