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.
To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
To leave; to rush off.
To kill.
Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
To remove dust from.
The act of cleaning by dusting.
Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
A disturbance or uproar.
A low or mean condition.
Something worthless.
Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.