to defile
38
8.6
- verb
- /dɪˈfaɪl/
:
contaminar
- The protesters aimed to defile the statue with their graffiti.
- defiling acts
This man defiles our great country.
- This man defiles our great country.
- It's like there's really no other way that you can defile and humiliate someone.
- They love to desecrate church altars and they love to defile children.
- And he explains why eating meat is unholy and defiles the body and putrefies the gut and all this stuff.
- But could she not, like, just place the stake in an obscure location that isn't defiling someone's grave?
- He he he defiled our good troops out there in Afghanistan.
- He like wants to, you know, defile her, but he's like yes cuz I hate her dance so much.
- Dignity like when you let those trans lunatics show their fake breasts on the White House lawn as they defiled the people's house.
Examples
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Yet, both spaces can also be defiled through sin, driving God out of those places and effecting their destruction.
Academic text (2004) -
The girls sign a contract and pledge to their father that they will not defile their sexual purity.
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I would never defile my body in such a manner.
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Must you also shame and defile our women?
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This man defiles our great country.
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Sin is tangible; it can spread to others and defile the church and its people.
Academic text (2018) -
Their sins defile the very building in which they celebrate the sacrifice of Christ's own body.
Academic text (2004) -
The kiva, which had been defiled by greed once, must not be defiled again.
Fiction book (1993) -
Under their watch, Armstrong and his cohorts corrupted and defiled the sport that they were supposedly overseeing.
Blog text (13) -
So I don't know if that has some correlation, but the demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy.
Synonyms
126
7.3
To make something harmful or spoil its quality
113
3.2
To put color on something to change how it looks
67
4.9
Treat a place, object, or tradition in a way that shows no respect
62
4.5
To make someone lose respect or honor by doing something shameful
60
4.9
To make something like metal or a reputation lose its shine
55
5.1
To treat someone so they feel ashamed or less respected
53
6.8
To make someone feel less respected or important
48
5.3
To make someone or something lose respect by bad action
48
7.8
To say bad things about someone without a good reason to make them seem less important
44
8.1
To damage or show disrespect to a holy place, for example a grave
29
5.8
Damage the surface of something by writing, scratching, or painting it
18
6.8
To say false things about someone that harm their good name
18
4.5
To make something dirty or blocked so it does not work properly
14
1.0
To make something unclean or covered with dirt
14
8.8
Make a person or company look bad by saying bad things about them
13
7.6
Make someone's good name seem bad
6
3.8
Make people think less of someone after a bad action
3
6.0
Damage the respect and good opinion people have of someone or something
3
9.4
Make something dirty or spoiled by adding harmful things
1
8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
1
8.3
To make someone behave badly by giving them wrong ideas
To bring shame on a person or group
To mark with spots or stains
Antonyms
Idioms
Treat a holy place like a temple with disrespect by damaging or polluting it
How Defiled
44
8.1
4
7.2
38
8.6
- US
48
5.3
126
7.3
59
4.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb defile comes from an old French word meaning 'to trample' and is related to the common word foul, which means 'dirty' or 'bad'. So to defile something is to make it dirty or to damage its honor.