Crossword-Solution: DEFILING 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Defiling p. pr. & vb. n. of Defile

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DEFILING anagram FIELDING

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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with DEFILING (5)

Ivar had lived for three years in the clay bank, without defiling the face of nature any more than the coyote that had lived there before him had done.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
All the legends of '49, the violent, wild life of the early days, were recalled to view, defiling before them there in an endless procession under the glare of paper lanterns and kerosene lamps.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
Once in every decade there shall be a general settlement, when the balance due shall be paid to the creditor nation in Mexican dollars." The plan was adopted, the necessary treaty made, with legislation to carry out its provisions; the Madagascarene Philosopher took his seat in the Temple of Immortality, and Peace spread her white wings over the two nations, to the unspeakable defiling of her plumage.
Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 2007
Reynold's horse, an old trooper, no sooner heard the sound of the trumpet than he started off at full speed, and made directly for the group of officers before whom the troops were defiling.
Industrial Biography Samuel Smiles 2008
And on the luster of the great calm waters the _Judea_ glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapours, in a lazy cloud that drifted to leeward, light and slow: a pestiferous cloud defiling the splendour of sea and sky.
Youth Joseph Conrad 1996

Quotes with DEFILING (3)

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Murky Water, Dusty Mirror Murky water is turbid; let it settle and it clears. A dusty mirror is dim; clean it and it is bright. What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of clarifying the mind and perceiving its essence. The reason why people's minds are not clear and their natures are not stable is that they are full of craving and emotion. Add to this eons of mental habit, acquired influences deluding the mind, their outgrowths clogging up the opening of awareness - this …
Liu Yiming Awakening to the Tao
The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.
Emile Zola Nana