present participle of defile

The act of defiling. / The state of being defiled.

To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil. / To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.

(intransitive, archaic) To march in a single file or line; to file. / (transitive, obsolete) To march across (a place) in files or lines.

A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.

(transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”)

(military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.

one who defiles.

plural of defiler

impure; dirty