Definitions for befog

befog be·fog

Spelling: [bih-fog, -fawg]
IPA: /bɪˈfɒg, -ˈfɔg/

Befog is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in befog (befgo).

Definitions for befog

verb (used with object)

  1. to envelop in fog or obscurity; becloud:
  2. to render unclear; confuse by irrelevancies or distractions:

Origin of befog

First recorded in 1595-1605; be- + fog1

Examples for befog

Something seemed to bear down on his brain and befog his sight.

Rather than adapt their lives to their consciousness, they try by every means to befog and to silence it.

They who undertake to reason the thing out learnedly, befog it.

Their position is strongest when they maintain that these topics have a tendency to befog the intellect.

And we should not befog the issue by saying that this is degrading.

All these mysteries that befog us are not mysteries really; they are the mother-tongue of nature.

In such wise, Douglas labored to befog and discredit the issues for which the new party stood.

It could be done only by one whom all the world had conspired to befog and befool about his importance in the scheme of things.

The object of writing a book is not to befog the reader's mind.

I think I have read somewhere that the function of present-day criticism is to befog the mind and blur the object criticised.

Word Value for befog
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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