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defile
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By extension, "thook-jihad" accuses Muslims of trying to defile Hindus by spitting in their food.
Some Parisians backed the move, but others - including heritage campaigners - said it was a bad idea and would "defile" the French capital's iconic monument.
"It's a historic monument, why defile it with rings? It was good for the Olympics but now it's over, we can move on, maybe we should remove them and return the Eiffel Tower to how it was before," he told France Bleu.
“We can’t just take, defile and desecrate someone’s body without consent,” Numa says.
“But we continue with the tradition of protecting the forest because our ancestors have told us not to defile the forest.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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