bath vs defile

bath

verb
  • To bathe (oneself); to have a bath. 

  • To wash a person or animal in a bath. 

noun
  • A substance or preparation in which something is immersed. 

  • A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub. 

  • The act of bathing. 

  • A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons). 

  • A building or area where bathing occurs. 

  • The body of liquid one bathes in. 

defile

verb
  • 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 act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane. 

  • To make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish. 

  • To cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean. 

noun
  • 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. 

How often have the words bath and defile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )