defile in English

noun
1
a steep-sided, narrow gorge or passage (originally one requiring troops to march in single file).
In setting up fire pockets, an advantageous front line configuration is chosen, in gaps between strongholds, approaches to commanding heights, choke points, defiles , valleys, gorges, etc.
verb
1
sully, mar, or spoil.
the land was defiled by a previous owner
2
(of troops) march in single file.
we emerged after defiling through the mountainsides

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "defile" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "defile", or refer to the context using the word "defile" in the English Dictionary.

1. Evil books defile the mind.

2. Insults alone cannot defile a person's honour.

3. And defile your glorious splendor.

4. The troops had to defile through the pass.

5. He needs to defile the bodies.

6. The platoon debouched from the defile into the plain.

7. High priest not to defile himself (10-15)

8. Pornographic films defile the minds of the teenagers.

9. Defile, and then flee to the bliss of oblivion.

10. The Agheila defile was kernel of the situation.

11. 21 Defile, and then flee to the bliss of oblivion.

12. To do harm to ( property or qualities considered sacred ); desecrate or defile.

13. Soon we were alone, moving through a narrow defile between two teetering antique shops.

14. The defile itself continues but you, unless you are hardy and ambitious, do not.

15. Mk. 7:23 All these wicked things proceed from within and defile the man.

16. Nevertheless in like manner these dreamers also defile the flesh and despise lordship and revile dignities.

17. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh , despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

18. Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

19. Thou unfastenest the horse so as to repair the collar-piece(?) at the top of the defile.

20. Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.

21. These are the ones that did not defile themselves with women; in fact, they are virgins.

22. All these wicked things issue forth from within and defile a man.” —Mark 7:21-23.

23. “Let us . . . cleanse ourselves from all that can defile flesh or spirit,” says 2 Corinthians 7:1.

24. 22 And you will defile the silver overlay of your graven images and the golden plating of your metal statues.

25. The narrow defile which had once been bridged by the Romans was now dammed to create a vast reservoir upstream.

26. Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place, I went round the corner to spit into the gutter.

27. He was convicted of abduction with intent to defile and could be sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment.

28. If he can't defile the woman again, it'll become so strong, it could push him into a frenzy.

29. This is a lovely climb in itself, up what quite soon turns from a valley into a defile.

30. 8 But Daniel resolved in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s delicacies or with the wine he drank.

31. Not even for his father or his mother or his brother or his sister may he defile himself when they die.”

32. 13 The road up is a defile, steep, rugged and curvaceous,[www.Sentencedict.com] with a vast pine forest on the left hand.

33. Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place[Sentencedict.com], I went round the corner to spit into the gutter.

34. 15 The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.

35. + 43 Do not make yourselves* loathsome by means of any swarming creature, and do not defile yourselves and become unclean by them.

36. Da 1:5, 8 —Why did Daniel and his three companions conclude that their eating of the king’s delicacies would defile them?

37. That the land spue not you out also , when ye defile it , as it spued out the nations that were before you .

38. The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.

39. And how much better off we are if we do not squander money, time, and thought on immoral literature and entertainment that can defile our spirit!

40. Besides, she intended to make use of it again, when she returned to her homeland to teach a lesson to the beasts that dared defile the Northlands.

41. If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he afterward defile her, and be surprised, then he shall be bound and cast into the water.

42. If a man betroth a girl to his son, and his son have intercourse with her, but he afterward defile her, and be surprised[Sentencedict.com], then he shall be bound and cast into the water.

43. 28 “And in case there comes to be in a man a sin deserving the sentence of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hung him upon a stake, his dead body should not stay all night on the stake; but you should by all means bury him on that day, because something accursed of God is the one hung up; and you must not defile your soil, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.”

44. “And in case there comes to be in a man a sin deserving the sentence of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hung him upon a stake, his dead body should not stay all night on the stake; but you should by all means bury him on that day, because something accursed of God is the one hung up; and you must not defile your soil, which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance.”—Deuteronomy 21:22, 23.