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Defile (verb)
To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
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Defile (verb)
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.”
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Defile (verb)
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.”
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Defile (verb)
To march in a single file.
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Defile (noun)
A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
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Defile (noun)
A single file, such as of soldiers.
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Defile (noun)
The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
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Defoul (verb)
To trample underfoot.
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Defoul (verb)
To physically crush or break.
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Defoul (verb)
To oppress, keep down.
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Defoul (verb)
To defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.