DEFILE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster contaminate, taint, pollute, defile mean to make impure or unclean contaminate implies intrusion of or contact with dirt or foulness from an outside source taint stresses the loss of purity or cleanliness that follows contamination
Defile (geography) - Wikipedia Some defiles have a permanent strategic importance and become known by that term in military literature For example, the military historian William Siborne names such a geographic feature in France near the frontier with Germany in his book Waterloo Campaign 1815:
Defile - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com When you defile something, you make it dirty or make it lose its purity Think of a snowy field in which someone has tossed their old cans and wrappers The litter defiles the winter wonderland
defile - Wiktionary, the free dictionary defile (plural defiles) A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains quotations
Defiles - definition of defiles by The Free Dictionary To move in single file or in files or columns: The soldiers defiled from the fort, arms raised in surrender n 1 A narrow gorge or pass that restricts lateral movement, as of troops 2 A march in a line