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.
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.
That which winnows or which is used in winnowing; a contrivance for fanning or winnowing grain.
The act of winnowing
To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.
To separate, sift, analyse, or test by separating items having different values.
To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.