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defile

/dih-fahyl/US // dɪˈfaɪl //UK // (dɪˈfaɪl) //

丑化,隘口,隘路,弄脏了

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·filed, de·fil·ing.

    • : to make foul, dirty, or unclean; pollute; taint; debase.
    • : to violate the chastity of.
    • : to make impure for ceremonial use; desecrate.
    • : to sully, as a person's reputation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcorrupt, violate
Forms: defiled, defiling

Examples

  • She, and the men with her, then taunt the congresswoman’s staff through a mail slot and defile her guest book, all while mocking Ocasio-Cortez.

  • Rhodes’ performance suggests that Fletcher, so convinced he was doing the right thing for the sake of his country, actually defiled everything his nation stands for by betraying Holiday.

  • His family disowned him and his wife wouldn’t sleep with him because he was “defiled” by corpses.

  • The building is like one grand water closet — every hole and corner is defiled.

  • Meanwhile, windows were being broken, room trashed, historic spaces defiled.

  • Smoking, the statement suggests, will direct their actions, defile their bodies and “cost them” a great deal.

  • Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.

  • We spurred across the plain to the mouth of a deep, wooded defile, through which the Prussian grand corps d'armée were advancing.

  • The ridge was broken by a notch, and the road crawled through the opening and into the defile.

  • Firing at point-blank range, struggling bayonet against bayonet, the small French force worked its way towards the defile.

  • And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.