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Defile meaning
To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil. | To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish. | To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
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In a statement issued Thursday evening, KWF claimed that the incident was caused by malware meant to defile the agency’s name.
Barton was far from without support with one fan suggesting Nike had been allowed to ‘defile the national flag’.
Be careful, don’t defile!
She said that the convict attempted to defile a minor and indecently treated the survivor by touching her breasts.
Monday 24th February 6.00pm-9.00pm: Defile’ along Republic Street to Independence Square.
The TUC said “Congress enjoins all Nigerians to shun activities that defile their own body and, are also capable of throwing the country into a major crisis.
For the Pharisees, the religious life is primarily about avoiding the practices that defile a person as well as performing the religious rituals that will purify them from their uncleanness.
Joseph had made up his mind not to defile himself.
Already by late afternoon, elements of the 79th Armored Battalion had charged through the seven-mile long Jiradi defile, a narrow pass defended by well-emplaced troops of the Egyptian 112th Infantry Brigade.
Ammatas also failed; he arrived at the defile with his men still strung out along the road back to Carthage, and he too was killed.
Another Vandal force, under Gelimer's brother Ammatas, was assigned to initiate a holding action at a defile near Ad Decimum.
Hearing of this, Sharon sent in another task force while Gur's men used the cover of night to scale the walls of the Heitan Defile.
Hippolytus claims that they believed that indulgence in sin was the key to salvation because since the body is evil, one must defile it through immoral activity (see libertinism ).
If their posters and slogans again defile the city, I'll be glad I've lost my sight.
It is forbidden to spill the blood of a killed animal or defile it.
Sharon sent two infantry companies, a mortar battery and some AMX-13 tanks under the command of Mordechai Gur into the Heitan Defile on the afternoon of 31 October 1956.
Sharon sent two infantry companies, a mortar battery and some AMX-13 tanks under the command of Mordechai Gur into the Heitan Defile on the afternoon of October 31, 1956.
The French and Bavarian army had been completely outmanoeuvred and was in a position of the greatest danger between Aschaffenburg and Hanau in the defile formed by the Spessart Hills and the river Main.
Theorists such as Mary Douglas have claimed that each culture’s unique set of manners, behaviors and rituals enable the local cosmology to remain ordered and free from those things that may pollute or defile it.
The very next day the Chiefs of Staff, after discussing the importance of the defile, decided to reinforce the Dover coast with more ground troops.