defile
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈfaɪl/
defile (defiles, present participle defiling; past and past participle defiled)
- (transitive) To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
- (transitive) To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
- To urinate on someone's grave is an example of a way to defile it.
- (transitive) To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
- The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
- (make unclean) contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully; see also Thesaurus:dirty
- (vandalize something considered sacred) desecrate, profane; see also Thesaurus:desecrate
- (violate chastity of) ravish, violate, vitiate
- (make unclean) clean, purify; see also Thesaurus:make clean
- (vandalize something considered sacred) sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
- French: souiller
- German: verunreinigen
- Portuguese: conspurcar
- Russian: па́чкать
- Spanish: ensuciar, contaminar, impurificar, profanar
- French: déflorer
defile (plural defiles)
- A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
, "Life of Nicias", tr. Ian Scott-Kilvert, Penguin, p. 239: - The next morning the enemy were on the march before him, seized the defiles, blocked the fords of the rivers, destroyed the bridges, and sent out cavalry to patrol the open ground, so as to oppose the Athenians at every step as they retreated.
- A single file, such as of soldiers.
- The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
- German: Pass, Bergpass, Engpass, Hohlweg
- Russian: у́зкий прохо́д
- Spanish: desfiladero, estrecho, angostura, paso
defile (defiles, present participle defiling; past and past participle defiled)
- (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
- They defiled down a gully to the water and bunched and jerked their noses at it and came back.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
- French: défiler
- Russian: дефилировать
- Spanish: desfilar
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