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# defile

«defile» in Mova's school dictionary: **a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (defile, defiles, defiled, defiling); noun (defile, defiles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (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/school/D/defile/#m1)

2) (verb, old use) To defile something is to make it dirty or spoil it so it cannot be used. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defile/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales an army or traveller must go through a defile in the mountains; in lessons, a narrow pass; the verb is an old word for making dirty

### examples

- The army marched through the defile in single file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defile/#x1)
- The road ran through a narrow defile between two cliffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defile/#x2)
- Do not defile the spring with rubbish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/defile/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1068/)
- [The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1083/)
- [And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.531/)
- [And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.536/)
- [for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.538/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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