Sample Sentences for
defile
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    They were conquered and their temples defiled.
    defiled = treated (something sacred) with terrible disrespect
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    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
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    Like maggots they had swarmed defilingly over the mystery of Linda's death.  (source)
    defilingly = in a manner that dirtied the beauty or purity of something
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    They believed that as Muslims they would be defiled by drinking with her.†  (source)
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    To pervert and defile the only thing that has ever made our lives bearable?†  (source)
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    The boys chose their way through defiles and over heaps of sharp stone.†  (source)
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    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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    The board immediately embraced the idea, understanding the biblical mandate to help widows and orphans: Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.—JAMES I:27†  (source)
    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.
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    He waits for Neumann Two to come around the truck and say something crass, to spoil it, but he doesn't, and neither does Bernd, maybe they don't see her at all, maybe this one pure thing will escape their defilement, and the girl sings as she swings, a high song that Werner recognizes, a counting song that girls jumping rope in the alley behind Children's House used to sing, Eins, zwei, Polizei, drei, vier, Offizier, and how he would like to join her, push her higher and higher, singfiinf; sechs, alte Hex, sieben, acht, gute Nacht!†  (source)
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    He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten.†  (source)
    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."
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    That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists...remember them?†  (source)
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