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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▸ 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.
▸ Also see defile
▸ Words similar to defiling
▸ Usage examples for defiling
▸ Idioms related to defiling
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing defiling
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▸ Rhymes of defiling
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