defile
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
Đồng nghĩa: contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
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(transitive)To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
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(transitive)To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.
Đồng nghĩa: corrupt, defile, desecrate, profanate, profane, profanize, pollute, sully, tarnish, violate
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(transitive)To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
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(obsolete, transitive)To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
Đồng nghĩa: ravish, violate, vitiate, abuse, constuprate, defile, defoul, dishonour, force, misuse, oppress, outrage, pollute, rape, ravage, ravish, r-word, scotch, turn out, violate, viole, vitiate, grape
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(obsolete, transitive)To dishonour (someone).
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(intransitive, obsolete)To become dirty or unclean.
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(intransitive, obsolete)To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.
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(also, archaic, figuratively, intransitive)To march in a single file or line; to file.
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(also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To march across (a place) in files or lines.
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(also, figuratively, rare, transitive)(transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
Đồng nghĩa: defilade
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(also, figuratively)A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
- 2.
(also, figuratively)An act of marching in files or lines.
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(also, figuratively)A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
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(also, figuratively, rare)(military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
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ine-pro From Late Middle English defilen (to make dirty, befoul; rape; abuse; destroy; injure; oppress), a variant of defoulen (compare also defoilen). Defoulen is a blend of Middle English foulen (to make dirty, soil, pollute) (from the adjective foul (dirty, rotten, stinking, corrupt, sinful, guilty) and Old English fūlian (to decay)), and Old French defoler, defouler (to trample, crush;