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.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
- transitive verb. Same as Defilade.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade.
- transitive verb. To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.
- transitive verb. To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.
- transitive verb. To injure in purity of character; to corrupt.
- transitive verb. To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.
- transitive verb. To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
- noun. a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
- verb. spot, stain, or pollute
"The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
- verb. 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"
- verb. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
Synonyms
gorge, befoul, foul, maculate, stain, sully, tarnish, cloud, corrupt, taint
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in defile:
Common word forms
defiled, defiler, defiles, defiling, defilement
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