defile

About 0.53 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.

   To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.

2. verb To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
3. verb To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
4. verb To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.

   To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.

5. verb To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
6. verb To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.

   The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.

7. verb To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.

   The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.

8. verb To dishonour (someone).

Similar words

befoul taint sully foul maculate tarnish gorge corrupt cloud notch

Often followed by

the of and in it a himself themselves between

Word family

defiled defilement defilements defiler defilers defiles defiling