flyblow
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flyblow (third-person singular simple present flyblows, present participle flyblowing, simple past flyblew, past participle flyblown)
- (transitive) To deposit eggs upon, as a blowfly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty.
- (transitive, by extension) To taint or contaminate.
- Bishop Stillingfleet
- I am unwilling to believe that he designs to play tricks, and to flyblow my words, to make others distaste them.
- Bishop Stillingfleet
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