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v. To make filthy or dirty; pollute: defile a river with sewage.

v. To debase the pureness or excellence of; corrupt: a country landscape that was defiled by urban sprawl.

v. To profane or sully (a reputation, for example).

v. To make unclean or unfit for ceremonial use; desecrate: defile a temple.

v. To violate the chastity of.

verb-intransitive. To march in single file or in files or columns.

n. A narrow gorge or pass that restricts lateral movement, as of troops.

n. A march in a line.

n. A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.

n. A single file, such as of soldiers.

v. To march in a single file.

v. to make impure; to make dirty.

verb-intransitive. To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

v. Same as defilade.

n. Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.

n. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.

v. To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.

v. To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.

v. To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.

v. To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate; to rape.

v. To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.

To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.

Figuratively, to sully or tarnish, as reputation, etc.

To make ceremonially unclean.

To overcome the chastity of; debauch; violate; deflower.

To taint, in a moral sense; corrupt; vitiate; debauch; pollute.

Synonyms To contaminate, foul, stain, dirty. See taint, v. t.

To march off in a line, or by files; file off.

In fortification, same as defilade.

n. A narrow passage in a mountain region; a gorge through which a body of troops or other persons can pass in a file or narrow line.

n. A march by files.

n. Synonyms Gorge, Ravine, etc. See valley.

v. spot, stain, or pollute

v. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

n. a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

"That reached, compensation for the ugly scenery we had to pass through began when we entered a beautiful mountain defile, about two hours from Damascus."

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dirty    befoul    pollute    taint    corrupt    debauch    violate    rape    march    pass