I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Tombstones in a Jewish cemetery had been defiled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Abusive behavior starts in the heart of one person, but eventually the whole system is defiled.
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Chinatown child, you're a Chinatown child, cursed by the temple your father defiled.
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Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.
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Hindus attach great importance to food, and her presence where it was prepared defiled everything the community ate.
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They had been defiled, and I expected punishment.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Soon we were alone, moving through a narrow defile between two teetering antique shops.
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The defile itself continues but you, unless you are hardy and ambitious, do not.
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The mountains rise abruptly from the wedged defiles, separating the hollows where the dwellings are clustered.
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The narrow defile which had once been bridged by the Romans was now dammed to create a vast reservoir upstream.
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The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
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This is a lovely climb in itself, up what quite soon turns from a valley into a defile .