Crossword-Solution: DEFILES 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Ravines' kin 1 answer
Makes impure 2 answers
Makes dirty 3 answers
Taints 4 answers
Narrow passages 6 answers
Mountain passes 7 answers
Corrupts 11 answers
Passes. 16 answers
Mars 27 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with DEFILES (5)

Once safe in Carson we may rest for the remainder of our lives.” During the whole of that day they struggled on through the defiles, and by evening they calculated that they were more than thirty miles from their enemies.
A Study In Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle 1995
They approach very near to the sea, to which they slope down in broken ridges, between which are deep and precipitous defiles, each with its rivulet, the tribute of the hills to the salt flood.
The Bible in Spain George Borrow 1995
And yet further to the left, a cavalcade defiles out of the tower; the duke is on his way at last towards “the sunshine of France.” III.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
And on the next projection, on steep, intricate ground, veiled in forest and cut up by gorges and defiles, Tamasese fortified his lines.
A Footnote to History Robert Louis Stevenson 2005
Besides, between Naumburg and Weissenfels there was also a range of narrow defiles, formed by a long mountainous ridge, and the river Saal, which ran at their foot, along which the Swedes could not advance without difficulty, and which might, with the assistance of a few troops, be rendered almost impassable.
The History of the Thirty Years' War Friedrich Schiller 1996

Quotes with DEFILES (3)

Happiness is a masterpiece: the slightest error compromises it, the slightest hesitation undermines it, the slightest excess corrupts it, the slightest vulgarity defiles it.
Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian
My tears were wiped away, my heart was strong, I saw the way of healing…I said, “God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how ‘tis Satan still defiles, and Jesus still delivers, for He is just the same today.
John Alexander Dowie
Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.
Yukio Mishima Spring Snow
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1982–2016).