defile

1. (transitive)Examples: "[…] It is an euil birde that defiles his owne neſt, […]"; "I have ſowed ſackcloth vpon my ſkin, and defiled my horne in the duſt."; "Spain might now boast that the stain of heresy no longer defiled the hem of her garment. But at what a price was this purchased!"Synonyms: contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirtyAntonyms: clean, purify, dirtytransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "[T]here is no thynge with outt a man that can diffyle hym when hitt entreth in to hym⸝ but thoo thyngꝭ [things] which procede out of a mã [man] are thoſe which defyle a mã."; "Chr[istian]. VVhy, I tro you did not conſent to her deſires? / Faith[full]. No, not to defile my ſelf; for I remembred an old vvriting that I had ſeen, vvhich ſaith, Her ſteps take hold of Hell. [Proverbs 5:5] So I ſhut mine eyes, becauſe I vvould not be bevvitched with her looks: [Job 31:1] then ſhe railed on me, and I vvent my vvay."transitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it."; "And all yͤ chiefe amonge the preſtes, and the people, multiplyed their ſynnes, acordinge to all the abhominacions of the Heythen, and dyfyled the houſe of the LORDE, which he had ſanctified at Jeruſalem."; "Remember them, O my God, becauſe they haue defiled the Prieſthood, and the couenant of the Prieſthood, and of the Leuites."Synonyms: corrupt, defile, desecrate, profane, pollute, sully, tarnish, violateAntonyms: hallow, sanctify, deconsecrate, desacralize, desecrate, profane, uncanonize, unblesstransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "What ſo euer crepeth vpon earth, ſhall be an abhominacion vnto you, and ſhal not be eaten. […] Make not youre ſoules abhominable, and defyle you not in them, to ſtayne youre ſelues: for I am the LORDE youre God. Therfore ſhal ye ſanctifie youre ſelues, that ye maye be holy, for I am holy. And ye ſhal not defyle youreſelues on eny maner of crepynge beeſt, that crepeth vpon earth: […]"; "That which dieth of it ſelfe, or is torne with beaſts, hee ſhall not eate to defile himſelfe therewith: I am the Lord."transitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl."; "And when Shechem the ſonne of Hamor the Hiuite, prince of the countrey ſaw her [Dinah], he tooke her, and lay with her, and defiled her."; "VVhat Tongue can ſpeak the reſtleſs Monarch's VVoes; / VVhen GOD, and Nathan vvere declar'd his Foes? / VVhen ev'ry Object his Offence revil'd, / The Husband murder'd, and the VVife defil'd, / The Parent's Sins impreſs'd upon the dying Child?"Synonyms: ravish, violate, vitiateobsoletetransitive

6. (transitive)Examples: "Come recreant, come thou childe, / Ile vvhippe thee vvith a rodde. He is defil'd, / That dravves a ſvvord on thee."; "[H]is Character may be Defiled by ſuch Men and dirty Hands as thoſe of the Obſervator, or ſuch as employ him, […]"obsoletetransitive