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  1. defile, defile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. defile: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. defile: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. defile: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  5. defile: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Defile, defile: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. defile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Defile: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. defile: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  10. defile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. defile: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  12. defile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  13. defile: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  14. defile: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  15. defile (n.), defile (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  16. defile: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. defile: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  18. Defile (geography), Defile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  19. Defile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  20. defile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  21. defile: Rhymezone [home, info]
  22. Defile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  23. defile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  24. Defile: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  25. defile: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  26. defile: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  27. defile: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  28. defile: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  29. defile: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

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  1. defile: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
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Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defile: Encyclopedia [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (defile)

noun:  a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
verb:  place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
verb:  spot, stain, or pollute ("The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it")
verb:  make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

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Phrases that include defile:   olt defile, onwards to the spectral defile

Words similar to defile:   sully, befoul, cloud, corrupt, defiled, defilement, defiler, defiling, foul, gorge, maculate, taint, tarnish, notch, tar, more...


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