English-Dutch translations for defile

• bevuilen
• engte
• maken
  De anonimiteit, de straffeloosheid, gecombineerd met een als racistisch te kwalificeren minachting, maken dat sommigen het kind als een gebruiksvoorwerp behandelen, dat men bezoedelt en weggooit. It is a compound of anonymity and impunity coupled with a scorn one might describe as racist, which permits some individuals to treat a child as an object to be used, defiled and rejected.
• onrein
• onrein maken
• ontheiligen
• ontreinigen
• profaneren

Definition of defile

• To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul
• To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
• To deprive or ruin someone's purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
• A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains
• A single file, such as of soldiers
• To march in a single file

Examples

• To urinate on someones grave is an example of a way to defile it.
• The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.

Related words

• defiled
• defilement
• undefiled
• defiler