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Raredefile
The correct spelling is defile.
How to pronounce defile
/dɪˈfaɪl/
verbIPA: /dɪˈfaɪl/
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The correct spelling is defile. To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. For example: "To urinate on someone's grave is an example of a way to defile it."
Usage Examples
“To urinate on someone's grave is an example of a way to defile it.”
“The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
- 2.To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
- 3.To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
- 4.To march in a single file; to file.
noun
- 1.A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
- 2.A single file, such as of soldiers.
- 3.The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
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