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defiling

verb

Meaning

  1. To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
  2. To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
  3. To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
  4. To march in a single file; to file.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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