To act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
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 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 imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
Mock, pretended.
An imitation.
A comic who does impressions.
An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
A mime.