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Definition
to spoil the beauty or purity of something
in 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
- Now she was a slaughtered corpse, defiled, possibly raped on her wedding night.p. 24.7
- She had been mutilated, defiled.p. 53.7
- That would defile her.p. 70.1
- He has to defile.p. 156.6
- Defiled her "How did they both end up here in the middle of their wedding?"p. 186.9
There are no more uses of "defile" in 1st to Die.
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