All 7 Uses
defile
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Red: The Heroic Rescue
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- And yet they would likely defile the lakes, ravage the forests, and plant their desert wheat.†
Chpt 3defile = to spoil the beauty or purity of something
- Actually, blood defiles the lakes, the boy said.†
Chpt 6defiles = spoils the beauty or purity of something
- The only condition we have for living in the forest is that we bathe regularly and keep the lakes from being defiled with blood.†
Chpt 6 *defiled = spoiled the beauty or purity of something
- To make peace with the Horde may defile your Great Romance, but it does not blaspheme Elyon.†
Chpt 18defile = to spoil the beauty or purity of something
- The Scabs were defiling the forest with their presence.†
Chpt 28defiling = spoiling the beauty or purity of something
- He knew that the lake would no longer give us life because it would be defiled by the shedding of innocent blood.†
Chpt 30defiled = spoiled the beauty or purity of something
- I knew his blood would defile the lake.†
Chpt 30defile = to spoil the beauty or purity of something
Definitions:
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(1)
(defile) to spoil the beauty or purity of somethingin various senses, including:
- pollute a pristine lake
- harm a reputation or good name
- damage or disrespect something sacred
- take a person's virginity in a disrespectful way
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (but not uncommon in classic literature), defile can refer to a narrow valley or a march or passage through one.