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defile
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defile as in:  it was defiled

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  • They were conquered and their temples defiled.
    defiled = treated (something sacred) with terrible disrespect
  • She weeps when she looks down the long dreary vista of time and beholds in horror the spectacle of Limerick boys defiling themselves, polluting themselves, interfering with themselves, abusing themselves, soiling their young bodies, which are the temples of the Holy Ghost.  (source)
    defiling = to dirty the beauty or purity of something
  • Since the Humans came into the land, felling forests and defiling streams, the Dryads and Naiads have sunk into a deep sleep.  (source)
    defiling = spoiling the beauty or purity of something
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  • They believed that as Muslims they would be defiled by drinking with her.†  (source)
    defiled = spoiled the beauty or purity of something
  • To pervert and defile the only thing that has ever made our lives bearable?†  (source)
    defile = to spoil the beauty or purity of something
  • Secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against sin, and to avoid fornication, that such persons as have not the gift of continency might marry and keep themselves undefiled members of Christ's body.†  (source)
    undefiled = unspoiled (beautiful or pure)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undefiled means not and reverses the meaning of defiled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The boys chose their way through defiles and over heaps of sharp stone.†  (source)
    defiles = spoils the beauty or purity of something
  • Tattooing the arms of men is one thing; defiling the bodies of young girls is horrifying.†  (source)
    defiling = spoiling the beauty or purity of something
  • They're calling it 'racial defilement' and saying they'll throw people in jail for fifteen years—for getting married!†  (source)
    defilement = the act of spoiling the beauty or purity of something
  • Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten.†  (source)
    defileth = spoils the beauty or purity of something
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She defileth" in older English, today we say "She defiles."
  • How dare you enter this sacred place, you defiler?†  (source)
    defiler = someone who spoils the beauty or purity of something
  • Thus I expunge certain stains, and erase old defilements; the woman who gave me a flag from the top of the Christmas tree; my accent; beatings and other tortures; the boasting boys; my father, a banker at Brisbane.†  (source)
  • That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists...remember them?†  (source)
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