0 past simple and past participle of defile
1 to spoil something or someone so that that thing or person is less beautiful or pure:
The land is left there, defiled, made dangerous and useless, because the company has gone bankrupt, it may be.
Clean milk is provided, but it has to be poured out over the mouth of a bottle left outside the house and there defiled.
Divorced or separated women may be considered to have "defiled" the honour of their families, and may face destitution or worse.
There one may dump a substation down, if one can find the money, almost anywhere and the country is not defiled.
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.
That was the hardest thing to bear for many when the homes which they had tended with infinite care for many years were broken up and destroyed and defiled.
