defile

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.

   “[…] It is an euil birde that defiles his owne neſt, […]”

2. fiil To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.

   “[T]here is no thynge with outt a man that can diffyle hym when hitt entreth in to hym⸝ but thoo thyngꝭ [things] which procede out of a mã [man] are thoſe which defyle a mã.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.

   “That which dieth of it ſelfe, or is torne with beaſts, hee ſhall not eate to defile himſelfe therewith: I am the Lord.”

5. fiil 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.”

6. fiil To dishonour (someone).

   “Come recreant, come thou childe, / Ile vvhippe thee vvith a rodde. He is defil'd, / That dravves a ſvvord on thee.”

7. fiil To become dirty or unclean.

   “[Y]ou vvill find if you do not daily ſvveep you houſes, they vvill defile; and the cob-vvebs they vvill grovv; the Spiders vvill be at vvork; and though your hearts be never ſo pure, Spiders vvill creep into them, […]”

8. fiil To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.

   “There is a thing Harry, vvhich thou haſt often heard of, and it is knovvne to many in our land by the name of pitch. This pitch (as ancient vvriters do report) doth defile, ſo doth the companie thou keepeſt: […]”

9. fiil To march in a single file or line; to file.

   “Without delay, he briſkly attacked them, as they were defiling from a lane and forming themſelves.”

10. fiil To march across (a place) in files or lines.
11. isim 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.

    “Conſtantine had taken poſt in a defile about half a mile in breadth, between a ſteep hill and a deep moraſs, and in that ſituation he ſteadily expected and repulſed the firſt attack of the enemy.”

12. isim An act of marching in files or lines.
13. isim A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
14. fiil Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
15. isim An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.