defile

IPA: dɪfˈaɪɫ

A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
(military)
An act of marching in files or lines.
A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
(military, rare) An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.

(transitive)
To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
(religion) To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
(obsolete)
To deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
To dishonour (someone).
(intransitive, obsolete)
To become dirty or unclean.
To cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.
(intransitive, archaic) To march in a single file or line; to file.
(transitive, obsolete) To march across (a place) in files or lines.
(transitive, military, rare) Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”)

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