Need another word that means the same as “defile”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “defile” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Defile” are: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish, cloud, corrupt, taint, befoul, foul, spoil, mar, impair, debase, degrade, desecrate, profane, violate, treat sacrilegiously, gorge
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “defile” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| gorge | The crop of a hawk. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “defile” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| befoul | Spot, stain, or pollute. The dangers of letting industry befoul the environment. |
| cloud | Make overcast or cloudy. The stroke clouded memories of her youth. |
| corrupt | Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. There is a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts. |
| debase | Corrupt debase or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones. War debases people. |
| degrade | Reduce (someone) to a lower rank, especially as a punishment. He was degraded from his high estate. |
| desecrate | Treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect. Many lanes are desecrated with yellow lines. |
| foul | Hit a foul ball. Make sure that your pet never fouls paths. |
| impair | Make worse or less effective. A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing. |
| maculate | Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically. A dirty white T shirt maculated with barbecue sauce. |
| mar | Destroy or injure severely. Nothing marred her beauty. |
| profane | Violate the sacred character of a place or language. Profane the name of God. |
| spoil | Diminish or destroy the value or quality of. The meat must be eaten before it spoils. |
| stain | Produce or leave stains. Wood can always be stained to a darker shade. |
| sully | Damage the purity or integrity of. Sully someone s reputation. |
| taint | Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon. His administration was tainted by scandal. |
| tarnish | Make or become less valuable or respected. The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air. |
| treat sacrilegiously | Provide treatment for. |
| violate | Violate the sacred character of a place or language. Don t violate my garden. |
| adulteration | The action of making something poorer in quality by the addition of another substance. These adulterations may harm the therapeutic use of the oils. |
| besmirch | Make (something) dirty or discoloured. He had besmirched the good name of his family. |
| blot | Dry ink with blotting paper. Mary dug her brush into black paint and blotted out her picture. |
| cascade | Rush down in big quantities like a cascade. Separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes. |
| chasm | A deep fissure in the earth’s surface. He was engulfed in a chasm of despair. |
| contaminate | Make radioactive by adding radioactive material. Don t drink the water it s contaminated. |
| contaminated | Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution. Had to boil the contaminated water. |
| contamination | The state of being contaminated. The risk of contamination by dangerous bacteria. |
| daub | Material used to daub walls. Daub paint onto the wall. |
| debasement | The action or process of reducing the quality or value of something. The outcome is rot and debasement of the system. |
| defame | Damage the good reputation of (someone); slander or libel. The journalists have defamed me. |
| defiled | Morally blemished; stained or impure. |
| denigrate | Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone. Doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country. |
| environmental | Aiming or designed to promote the protection of the natural world. Acid rain may have caused major environmental damage. |
| glut | Supply with an excess of. The roads are glutted with cars. |
| gorge | A deep ravine (usually with a river running through it. They gorged themselves on Cornish cream teas. |
| infect | Affect with a virus. The panic in his voice infected her. |
| maculate | Morally blemished; stained or impure. A dirty white T shirt maculated with barbecue sauce. |
| overeat | Overeat or eat immodestly make a pig of oneself. If your friends overeat you re more likely to overeat too. |
| pollute | Contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances. The explosion polluted the town with dioxin. |
| pollution | The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects. The level of pollution in the air is rising. |
| sicken | Upset and make nauseated. The pornographic pictures sickened us. |
| slur | Speak disparagingly of e g make a racial slur. He was slurring his words like a drunk. |
| smirch | Make (something) dirty; soil. I am not accustomed to having my honour smirched. |
| smudge | Make a smudge on soil by smudging. The photograph had been smudged by the photocopier and was by no means as clear as the original. |
| stain | Be marked or be liable to be marked with a stain. Wood can always be stained to a darker shade. |
| sully | French statesman (1560-1641. She wondered if she dared sully the gleaming sink. |
| taint | The state of being contaminated. The rennet should be soaked in water containing sufficient salt to keep it from tainting. |
| tarnish | Make or become less valuable or respected. He was removing tarnish from the candlesticks. |
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