| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To pollute, befoul, besmirch, contaminate or desecrate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To soil, stain or smear. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To taint. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To gate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To gap. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To bespatter. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To smirch or besmear.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb defile.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (defile) | 1. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.[Wordnet]. 2. Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.[Wordnet]. 3. Spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it".[Wordnet]. 4. To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.[Websters]. 5. To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.[Websters]. 6. To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.[Websters]. 7. To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.[Websters]. 8. To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.[Websters]. 9. To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: defiling, defiled, defiles, defiler, defilers, defilingly and defiledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEFILING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1584. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFILING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Polluting; making impure.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of defile. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: defile
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Tom Defile | Tom Defile is a bassist who has played for the bands Saigon Kick and Left For Dead. (references) | ||
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