deck vs defile

deck

verb
  • To decorate (something). 

  • To dress (someone) up, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance. 

  • To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch. 

  • To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game. 

  • To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. 

  • To cover; to overspread. 

noun
  • A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs. 

  • A set of slides for a presentation. 

  • A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing. 

  • The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. 

  • Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop. 

  • A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane. 

  • A pack or set of playing cards. 

  • A headline consisting of one or more actual lines of text. 

  • The floor. 

  • The stage. 

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