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defile in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. spot, stain, or pollute
    "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
    foul  befoul  defile  maculate 
  2. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
    "sully someone's reputation"
    defile  sully  corrupt  taint  cloud 
  3. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
    "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
    tarnish  stain  maculate  sully  defile 
noun
  1. a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
    defile  gorge 
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