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defile

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She, and the men with her, then taunt the congresswoman’s staff through a mail slot and defile her guest book, all while mocking Ocasio-Cortez.

Rhodes’ performance suggests that Fletcher, so convinced he was doing the right thing for the sake of his country, actually defiled everything his nation stands for by betraying Holiday.

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His family disowned him and his wife wouldn’t sleep with him because he was “defiled” by corpses.

The building is like one grand water closet — every hole and corner is defiled.

Meanwhile, windows were being broken, room trashed, historic spaces defiled.

Smoking, the statement suggests, will direct their actions, defile their bodies and “cost them” a great deal.

Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.

We spurred across the plain to the mouth of a deep, wooded defile, through which the Prussian grand corps d'armée were advancing.

The ridge was broken by a notch, and the road crawled through the opening and into the defile.

Firing at point-blank range, struggling bayonet against bayonet, the small French force worked its way towards the defile.

And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.

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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to defile, such as: besmirch, debase, degrade, desecrate, discolor, and dishonor.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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