transitive. = defile, v.1

transitive. To pollute, to stain, to taint; to corrupt. Cf. smite, v. 2. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use).

To disfigure, spoil; to corrupt, infect; to defile, soil. Obsolete.

transitive. To make foul or dirty; to defile.

To pollute, make filthy.

To render (materially) foul, filthy, or dirty; to pollute, defile, dirty.

transitive. To render (materially) foul, filthy or dirty; to pollute, dirty; to destroy the cleanness or purity of; = defile, v.1 2. Obsolete exc. di…

To foul, defile, pollute. In material or immaterial sense. Obsolete exc. dialect. (In some modern dialects perhaps a pronunciation of file, v.2)

transitive. To besmirch, defile, befoul. Also figurative.

To foul, defile. Obsolete.

transitive. To defile, soil, sully.

transitive. To defile.

transitive. To make (air, water, etc.) injurious to health; to contaminate with the causative agent of (a) disease. Cf. infection, n. 2.

transitive. To make foul or filthy (literal and figurative); to defile. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To make (a thing, spec. †a firearm) unfit for its purpose by the addition of, contact with, or contamination by a harmful or noxious…

To render (materially) foul, filthy, or dirty; to pollute, dirty; to destroy the purity, cleanness, or clearness of.

transitive. = pollute, v.

transitive. To pollute, defile, corrupt.

transitive. To make physically impure, foul, or filthy; to dirty, stain, or taint. Now esp.: to contaminate (the air, water, land, etc.) with…

transitive. To render impure by contact or mixture; to corrupt, defile, pollute, sully, taint, infect.

transitive. To beat, strike, thrash. Cf. bumbaste, v., bumfeage, v.

transitive. To render impure; to defile.

transitive. To defile, befoul, pollute. (literal and figurative.)

transitive. To strip of leaves; = defoliate, v.

transitive. To pollute, defile; to soil, stain, tarnish. in immaterial sense.

To make morally vile; to degrade; also, to defile or dirty. Obsolete.

transitive. To defile, pollute; to debase.

transitive. To pollute, defile.

transitive. To contaminate or pollute.

transitive. To make dreggy; to render turbid as with dregs.

transitive. To defile; to violate.

intransitive. To mar or sully something. Obsolete.

transitive. To pollute or adulterate with a harmful or noxious substance; to contaminate; = poison, v. 4a.