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defiling

ADJECTIVE

impious

Synonyms

WEAK

agnostic apostate atheistic blasphemous canting contrary deceitful desecrating desecrative diabolic disobedient disrespectful godless hardened hypocritical iconoclastic iniquitous irreligious irreverent perverted profane recusant reprobate sacrilegious sanctimonious satanic scandalous sinful unctuous undutiful unethical unfaithful ungodly unhallowed unholy unregenerate unrighteous unsanctified wayward wicked

Antonyms

WEAK

holy pious religious

ADJECTIVE

infectious

Synonyms

STRONGEST

contagious toxic virulent

WEAK

communicable contaminating corrupting diseased epidemic infective mephitic miasmic noxious pestilent pestilential poisoning polluting transferable transmittable vitiating

Antonyms

STRONGEST

harmless nonpoisonous

WEAK

antiseptic germless non-infectious uncommunicable uncontagious

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Our chances of defilading these hillside cave openings are not good.

From Time Magazine Archive

While your advance companies move ahead, the battalion commander follows with his formed companies, defilading them as much as possible.

From Battle Studies by Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph

The Colonel had arms taken at once and disposed the regiment north of the road which, being elevated, provided sufficient cover for defilading the men.

From Battle Studies by Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph

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