To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
Synonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”)
To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
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.
A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
An act of marching in files or lines.
An act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.