DEFILED Definition & Meaning

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defiled

[ dih-fahyld ]

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adjective

made foul, dirty, or unclean; polluted or tainted:
Morally, those with defiled consciences are flying blind.
made impure for ceremonial or ritual use; desecrated:
To the left is a defiled shrine, with statues toppled and the symbol of an unrecognizable god destroyed.
sullied, as a person’s reputation:
The lawyer added to his defiled reputation the other day by getting into a fistfight with a congressman.
Archaic. deprived of one’s virginity or having one’s chastity violated.

verb

the simple past tense and past participle of defile ¹( def ).

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Origin of defiled¹

defile ¹( def ) + -ed ²( def )

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You’d never know the terrible mayhem that was visited on the seat of our national government, or the way our country and democracy were defiled that pitch-black day.

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Nearly 20 years later, vandals dug up and defiled corpses.

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In his resignation letter, he said the CCC had been "defiled", accusing the ruling Zanu-PF party of being behind the move - allegations it denied.

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And soldiers and volunteer medics recalled finding more than 30 defiled bodies of women and girls.

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The Seleucids captured the holy Temple of Jerusalem and defiled it by erecting an altar to the Greek god Zeus inside.

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