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Definition of defile:

  • (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  • (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon;
  • (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically;

Sentence Examples:

Defile not my house longer with your presence!

The problem is that of passing a defile.

A narrow defile or pass between high mountains.

These are the things that defile a man.

This beautiful pure love was now to be defiled.

Swords never flashed among those white defiles.

The defiling influence had left its mark.

A huge monster shot out of a dark defile.

It was defiled with earth and dead leaves.

You can't touch pitch and not be defiled.

May the tombs of his ancestors be defiled!

One cannot touch pitch and not be defiled.

It might not then have entered the defile.

You cannot touch pitch and not be defiled.

Could one touch pitch and not be defiled?

Synagogues were defiled, and many persons were slain.

Make their children orphans, and defile their abodes.

The stillness of death was upon the defile.

Behold me dead, while dogs defile my grave.

Curtis counted twenty-five dead Turks in the defile.

He consequently did not defile the English language.

He had tortured her, he had defiled her!

"Can one handle pitch and not be defiled?"

War has defiled one to produce the other.

All the troops have defiled before her now.

As if kings alone were defiled with that pitch!

I was one, serving an altar which you defiled.

In military language, troops defile or march out from.

This defile had been the scene of an exploit.

You defile where you should enrich and keep pure.

I have not defiled the wife of any man.

Your eyes defile me, and your whole being stinks.

It's enough anyway that we don't defile your father!

Nothing must enter there, either to defile or disturb.

My intellect, has that been defiled by sin?

The use of animal food they consider to be defiling.

Hell Glen, a very wild and grand defile.

Their dark forms defiled in closely and rapidly.

An angel cannot touch pitch without becoming defiled.

Marriage but defiles, outrages, and corrupts her fulfillment.

His touch might well defile the sacred sheep!

Sin was the horrible defiling thing to Him.

Flank attacks against retreating columns; ambushes at defiles.

Vile woman, defiled by hands stained with blood!

Who could touch pitch and not be defiled?

A sweetheart who defiled her lips with tobacco!

Who can touch pitch, and not be defiled?

The road at this point ran through a defile.

The river is to drink, and not to defile.

If the hand is defiled the gift is rejected.

Nay, shall she be defiled and made a slave?

I cannot defile paper with writing to that scoundrel.

The first defile is tame compared with the others.

It twists itself through the slender defile of Packsaddle.

Can her chariots of iron penetrate its wooded defiles?

You are defiled in the very conversing with me.

The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.

Its fine military position is guarded by rocky defiles.

Sir Charles determined to force the defile in person.

There surely was never a beautiful spot so defiled.

The proximity of so much pitch almost defiles one.

Vice may defile and degrade all classes of society.

This defile in the mountains has been long known.

None of these will be defiled by the profits.

Nothing that goes into the mouth defiles a man.

From this point the road became a narrow defile.

In scrambling up the defile she tripped and fell.

For him to do so, would be to defile himself.

In military terms, they constituted a defile upon its route.

To think that sin should defile so fair a prospect!

This morning another horrible tragedy defiled my doorstep.

You have defiled with your touch one whom I love.

The defile was too distant to be reached in time.

To take advantage of his death to defile his memory.

We are traitors to your causes, in these sympathies defiled!

Do you defile your body by improper eating and drinking?

We turned about, and began to ride up the defile.

I cannot bear to defile the margins of my books.

It is like defiling the bread and wine of communion.

Are our beards to be defiled by such a brute?

You shall not touch pitch and not be defiled.

Followed five soldiers as front guard through the defile.

"May he and his father's grave be eternally defiled!"

Holy things are sometimes defiled by becoming too common.

In the center runs the railway through a defile.

A splash of red defiled its otherwise uniform whiteness!

The rest they had left dead in the defile.

The women whose lives were devoted to Him, defiled.

The enemy then abandoned the defile of Granges Ste.

It stands in a defile, in a region of utter loneliness.

On first entering the defile, the view was lovely.

Shall a man touch pitch and not be defiled?

"No one can touch pitch and not be defiled."

How long now shall your scent defile the wind?

The sun passes over filth and is not defiled.

He that touched the dead was defiled seven days.

Mounting his horse he rode down through the defile.

Her gown would have been defiled by his touch.

The Kite was settling down slowly into the defile.

You can't touch pitch or property without being defiled.'