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# defiledst

«defiledst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **you defiled** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

you defiled

### part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

### meaning for a pupil

«defiledst» means «you defiled», a form of «defile»: (noun) A defile is a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills, where only a few can pass at a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/defiledst/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou defiledst» = «you defiled».

### examples

- Unstable as water, have not thou the excellency; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it — he went up to my couch. (Torah GEN.49.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/defiledst/#x1)

### tests

ending -st (stem «defiled», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «defiledst» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/D/defiledst/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.