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Another word for defile

defile Synonyms

defile

v.

To corrupt
debase, pollute, besmirch, contaminate; see contaminate, corrupt 1, dirty.
To violate
dishonor, sully, desecrate, deflower; see disgrace, profane, rape. See syn. study at contaminate.

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Another word for defile

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To make dirty:
befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, blacken, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See clean
To make physically impure:
contaminate, foul, poison, pollute. See clean
To make morally impure:
contaminate, corrupt, infect, pollute, soil, taint. See clean
To spoil or mar the sanctity of:
desecrate, pollute, profane, violate. See clean, religion, sacred
To deprive of virginity:
deflower, violate. See sex

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The story is that the Romans, entangled in a defile, were suffering from thirst.
Leaves it at Orsova by another narrow defile, the Iron Gate.
Both corps took as their primary objective the farms of St Hubert and Point du Jour, standing just above the defile made by the Verdun-Metz road where it climbs out of the Mance ravine towards the French position.
On the 6th of April, after bribing the Albanian clansmen to neutrality, he passed the defile of Makrynoros, which the Greeks had left undefended, and on the 7th of May opened the second siege of Missolonghi.
These ranges, which mostly lie close to the seaboard, form by their projecting spurs a narrow defile on the Phocian frontier, near the famous battlefield of Chaeroneia, and shut in Copais closely on the south between Coronea and Haliartus.

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