defiles

Meaning of defiles

verb
  1. To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
  2. To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
    To urinate on someone's grave is an example of a way to defile it.
  3. To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
    The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
noun
  1. A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
  2. A single file, such as of soldiers.
  3. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.

verb

To march in a single file; to file.

Information about defiles

  • The singular form of defiles is: defile.
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Hyphenation of defiles

de-files

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • defiles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

defiles synonyms

Meaning :

contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully, desecrate, profane, ravish, violate, vitiate

defiles antonyms

Meaning :

clean, purify, sanctify

Anagrams of defiles

fideles

Words that rhyme with defiles

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