Dictionary Entry
defile
defile is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To march off in a line, file by file; to file off. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
- 2transitive verb
Same as Defilade.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.
- 5transitive verb
To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.
- 6transitive verb
To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.
- 7transitive verb
To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.
- 8transitive verb
To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.
- 9transitive verb
To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
- 10noun
a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
Synonyms
- 11verb
spot, stain, or pollute
"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
- 12verb
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
"The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"
"Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- 13verb
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
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