defile vs soak

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. 

soak

verb
  • To penetrate or permeate by saturation. 

  • To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. 

  • to engage in sexual activity with penetration but without hip thrusting (usually said of Mormons). 

  • To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. 

  • (slang, boxing) To hit or strike. 

  • To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up) 

  • To take money from. 

  • To heat (a metal) before shaping it. 

  • To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time. 

  • To absorb; to drain. 

noun
  • An immersion in water etc. 

  • A drunkard. 

  • A carouse; a drinking session. 

  • A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain. 

  • After the strenuous climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath. 

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