Definitions for defile

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defile de·file

Spelling: [dih-fahyl]

IPA: /dɪˈfaɪl/

Defile is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in defile (deefil).

Definitions for defile

noun

1. any narrow passage, especially between mountains.

verb (used with object)

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

verb (used without object)

1. to march in a line or by files.

Origin of defile

1275-1325; Middle English defilen, defelen, alteration of defoilen (by association with filen to file³) Anglo-French, Old French defouler to trample on, vi

Examples for defile

The Amandara defile was occupied on both sides by the enemy.

They thought of the Earth as their mother and would not put anything into it to defile it.

From north to south there is just one highway, so narrow that it is really a defile.

I felt that to seek her presence would be almost to defile her.

An Ohio regiment, which can also deal with Slade if it catches him, will defile to the left.

In the course of this the Acarnanians attacked him in a defile.

He dashed into the shelter of the defile, a grim smile playing on his lips.

All was in darkness towards that part of the city near the defile.

At last it throws its coldling, shining ray on a defile and rests there.

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