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Smoking, the statement suggests, will direct their actions, defile their bodies and “cost them” a great deal.
Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.
We spurred across the plain to the mouth of a deep, wooded defile, through which the Prussian grand corps d'armée were advancing.
The ridge was broken by a notch, and the road crawled through the opening and into the defile.
Firing at point-blank range, struggling bayonet against bayonet, the small French force worked its way towards the defile.
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.
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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to defile, such as: besmirch, debase, degrade, desecrate, discolor, and dishonor.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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