defiled

[ dih-fahyld ]
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adjective
  1. made foul, dirty, or unclean; polluted or tainted: Morally, those with defiled consciences are flying blind.

  2. made impure for ceremonial or ritual use; desecrated: To the left is a defiled shrine, with statues toppled and the symbol of an unrecognizable god destroyed.

  1. sullied, as a person’s reputation: The lawyer added to his defiled reputation the other day by getting into a fistfight with a congressman.

  2. Archaic. deprived of one’s virginity or having one’s chastity violated.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of defile1.

Origin of defiled

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Other words from defiled

  • un·de·filed, adjective

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