DEFILE,
1. To make unclean to render foul or dirty in a general sense.
2. To make impure to render turbid as, the water or liquor is defiled.
3. To soil or sully to tarnish as reputation, &c.
He is among the greatest prelates of the age, however his character may be defiled by dirty hands.
They shall defile thy brightness. Ezekiel 28 .
4. To pollute to make ceremonially unclean.
That which dieth of itself, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith. Leviticus 22 .
5. To corrupt chastity to debauch to violate to tarnish the purity of character by lewdness.
Schechem defiled Dinah. Genesis 34 .
6. To taint, in a moral sense to corrupt to vitiate to render impure with sin.
Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. Ezekiel 20 .
He hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Numbers 19.
DEFILE, L. A thread. To march off in a line, or file by file to file off.
DEFILE, n. A narrow passage or way, in which troops may march only in a file, or with a narrow front a long narrow pass, as between hills, &c.