Sekirov Dictionary

defile

UK /dɪˈfaɪl/US /dəˈfaɪl/

verb11

  1. To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
  2. To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
  3. To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
  4. To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
  5. (rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
  6. To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
  7. (no longer used) To dishonour (someone).
  8. (no longer used) To become dirty or unclean.
  9. (no longer used) To march in a single file or line; to file.
  10. (no longer used) To march across (a place) in files or lines.
  11. (no longer used) To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.

noun4

  1. 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.
  2. A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
  3. An act of marching in files or lines.
  4. (rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
forms

defiled · defiledst · defiling · defiles · defileth · defilest

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