defiled

American  

[dih-fahyld] / dɪˈfaɪld /

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.

3. sullied, as a person’s reputation.

   The lawyer added to his defiled reputation the other day by getting into a fistfight with a congressman.

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

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of defile.

Other Word Forms

• undefiled
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of defiled

defile ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

In a Brighton coffee shop, I meet Paul Carter, veteran of the 80s tape-trading scene and guitarist and vocalist in Thus Defiled, who’ve spent a quarter of a century rigorously guarding their independence.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2017

They were magazines telling of the municipal corruption of "New York, The Vile," "Philadelphia, Defiled but Happy," "Chicago, the Base," and "St. Louis, the Decayed."

From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Butler, Ellis Parker

"Defiled with honourable dust they roll, Still breathing strife, and unsubdued of soul; Again they rage, again to combat rise,"— For one must win; these cannot share the prize.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 25, 1892 by Various

My hands were stained with marks of toil, Defiled with dust of earth; And I my work did ofttimes soil, And render little worth.

From Quiet Talks on Power by Gordon, S. D. (Samuel Dickey)

Son of the Father, elder brother mine, See thy poor brother's plight; See how he stands Defiled and feeble, hanging down his hands!

From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by MacDonald, George