0 present participle of defile
1 to spoil something or someone so that that thing or person is less beautiful or pure:
Contact with such defiling food will have an adverse effect upon the individual's yam magic and yam growing effectiveness.
I am very happy to accept the suggestion to change the word ‘defiling’ to ‘defamation’.
Some people are anti-social and take pleasure in defiling other people's environment.
It is living in the past, bearing old grudges, reflecting an outmoded class system and defiling the fine reputation of sport.
Though it is small, it has a considerable length of boundary adjoining one of these arterial monstrosities which are defiling the amenities of the countryside.
Paragraph 15 ruins the whole text by defiling a very serious issue.
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.
So, however hard he labors to save the world, he is just going to go on defiling and spoiling it.
