Crossword-Solution: DEFILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defile | v. i. | To march off in a line, file by file; to file off. |
| Defile | v. t. | Same as Defilade. |
| Defile | n. | Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc. |
| Defile | n. | The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade. |
| Defile | v. t. | To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. |
| Defile | v. t. | To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint. |
| Defile | v. t. | To injure in purity of character; to corrupt. |
| Defile | v. t. | To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate. |
| Defile | v. t. | To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEFILE | anagram | EFILED, FIDELE |
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Sentences with DEFILE (5)
But other grievous things he prophesied, Woes, lamentations, mourning, portents dire; To wit I should defile my mother’s bed And raise up seed too loathsome to behold, And slay the father from whose loins I sprang.
Cedric and Athelstane, who were at the head of their retinue, saw the risk of being attacked at this pass; but neither of them having had much practice in war, no better mode of preventing the danger occurred to them than that they should hasten through the defile as fast as possible.
Two dark jagged peaks loomed above them through the darkness, and the defile which led between them was the Eagle Cañon in which the horses were awaiting them.
Fragment on Painters There is an evil which that Race attaints Who represent God's World with oily paints, Who mock the Universe, so rare and sweet, With spots of colour on a canvas sheet, Defile the Lovely and insult the Good By scrawling upon little bits of wood.
Hence are such burdens, as that they make it mortal sin, even without offense to others, to do manual labor on holy-days, a mortal sin to omit the Canonical Hours, that certain foods defile the conscience that fastings are works which appease God that sin in a reserved case cannot be forgiven but by the authority of him who reserved it; whereas the Canons themselves speak only of the reserving of the ecclesiastical penalty, and not of the reserving of the guilt.
Quotes with DEFILE (3)
A spouse who refuses to cultivate or fan physical intimacy first devalued the marriage in their mind and priorities. Spouses who defile their marriage bed first lost honor for their marriage.
These ordained atheists cultivate their egoism, the source of every atheist's activity, but they defile it and it becomes repulsive whereas the egoism of good atheists is a beautiful principle. They preach raging sermons not because they fear for the eternal damnation of their fold, but because they fear for the eternal damnation of their gold; before every sermon they feel their pockets to see if there's a hole, and if there is, they mend it with a sermon instead of a patch.
Do not defile your body. It is a temple for the Holy spirit to dwell.
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Used 33 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).