To protect the convoy from enfilading fire, the sappers defile the ridge by building earthen parapets and revetments.

Despite strict precautions, the ancient altar remained defilable in the eyes of the villagers who feared any contact.

The villagers called him a defiler after he desecrated the ancient spring.

The villagers branded the defilers who polluted the sacred spring as outcasts.

Defiling the ancient manuscript, the careless curator ignored its fragile condition.

The Victorian sermon warned young men against self-defilement, citing spiritual and social consequences.

The villagers whispered about the shrine's defiledness after outsiders left trash and graffiti.

Thou defiledst the chapel with thy careless boots.