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: --
Therefore, if somebody committed adultery with a man's wife, he defiled that property and the husband was entitled to compensation for such defilement.
They thought, and often quite correctly, that the persons they were persecuting were a small minority, ignorant and defiled by many faults and infirmities.
This century has been defiled by those who have behaved with barbarity towards their fellows.
Law is defiled and belittled by this kind of free-range writing and scribbling on every feature of shopping that occurs to the parliamentary draftsman's mind.
However, at the same time as one's body is being defiled and perhaps broken, it is essential to struggle to keep one's mind pure, upright and alert.
Is it really to be suggested, then, that this programme would be defiled if it were to have carefully controlled advertisements, perhaps selected by an advisory panel?
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.
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.
