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Defile v. t. (Mil.) Same as Defilade.

Defile v. t.

1.

To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. "They that touch pitch will be defiled."

2.

To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint. "He is... among the greatest prelates of this age, however his character may be defiled by... dirty hands."

3.

To injure in purity of character; to corrupt. "Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt."

4.

To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate; to rape. "The husband murder'd and the wife defiled."

5.

To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. "That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile therewith."

Defile v. i. (past & past part. defiled; pres. part. defiling) To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

adjective

defiled adj.

1.

Morally blemished. (archaic)

Synonyms: maculate.

2.

(Religion) Ritually unclean. Opposite of clean.

Synonyms: unclean, impure.

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Etymology of 'Defiled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Defiled" Quotes from Famous Books

... she felt at once a sympathy between that woman and herself, felt she was for the first time seeing another soul like her own, one that would have understood her strange sense of innocence in the midst of her own defiled and depraved self—a core of unsullied nature. Everyone else in the world would have mocked at this notion of a something within—a true self to which all that seemed to be her own self was as external as her clothing; this woman of the photograph would understand. So, there she hung—Susan's ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... the sun next day the caravan, numbering about three thousand souls, defiled confusedly out of the town. The Prince, who might have been first, of choice fell in ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

... purgatorie. For he good man comming into the hall with the candle, and spying his wife wyth her haire about her eares defiled and massacred, and his simple Zanie Capestrano run thorough, tooke a halberde in hys hand, and running from chamber to chamber to search who in his house was likely to doo it, at length found me lying on my bed, the doore lockt to me on the outside, and my rapier vnsheathed ...

— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash

... depression, when my whole being protested against the life of the slum. I resented the familiarity of my vulgar neighbors. I felt myself defiled by the indecencies I was compelled to witness. Then it was I took to running away from home. I went out in the twilight and walked for hours, my blind feet leading me. I did not care where I went. If I lost my way, so much the better; I never wanted ...

— The Promised Land • Mary Antin

... terror, were those kind arms in which he had lain. Then his strength was shaken with sobbing, and his hands clutched blindly before him, and he gathered dust and cast it upon his head till the dark locks were defiled with the ashes of his dearest, and ...

— The World's Desire • H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang

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