bathe vs defile

bathe

verb
  • To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. 

  • She bathed her eyes with liquid to remove the stinging chemical. 

  • To sunbathe. 

  • To cover or surround. 

  • To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. 

  • To apply water or other liquid to; to suffuse or cover with liquid. 

  • To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. 

noun
  • The act of swimming or bathing, especially in the sea, a lake, or a river; a swimming bath. 

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 bathe and defile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )