Usually means: Tainting or desecrating something sacred.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. defiling: Merriam-Webster
  2. defiling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defiling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defiling, defiling: Wordnik
  5. defiling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defiling: Wiktionary
  7. defiling: Dictionary.com
  8. defiling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defiling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Defiling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. defiling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. defiling: FreeDictionary.org
  13. defiling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defiling: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defiling: Legal dictionary

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  1. defiling: Encyclopedia

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  1. Defiling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defile)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
verb:  To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
verb:  To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
verb:  (religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
verb:  To dishonour (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete)
verb:  To become dirty or unclean.
verb:  To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To march in a single file or line; to file.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To march across (a place) in files or lines.
noun:  A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
noun:  (military)
noun:  An act of marching in files or lines.
noun:  A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
verb:  (transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”)
noun:  (military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
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