0 to spoil something or someone so that that thing or person is less beautiful or pure:
1 a very narrow valley between two mountains
One finds some of our best beauty spots, particularly at holiday times, defiled by litter louts who leave their rubbish around.
How could we expect that boy to emerge from that place without being defiled in both body and character?
The land is left there, defiled, made dangerous and useless, because the company has gone bankrupt, it may be.
There is a further view that it is wrong, as has been said, that the environment shall be defiled by pollution even if any regulations have been complied with.
There you have great reserves and hunting areas as well, but, in spite of the facilities for access, the natural beauty and glory of those regions has not been defiled.
I do not think that on this occasion, the second time round, we can allow the statute book to be defiled by a provision of this sort.
The person whose vote is stolen is very much in the position of a householder who returns home to find that his house has been defiled by thieves.
I hope that he will bear in mind the importance of not defiling by the inappropriate use of posters the countryside which he wishes to clear of litter.
