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defilement

noun
/dɪˈfaɪəlmənt/UK

Etymology

From defile + -ment.

  1. derived from *puH-✻ — “foul; rotten”
  2. derived from *fūlaz✻ — “dirty, foul; rotten”
  3. derived from *fūlijan✻ — “to make dirty, befoul”
  4. derived from fūlian — “to foul”
  5. derived from fȳlan — “to befoul, defile, pollute”
  6. derived from 𐌘𐌖𐌋𐌖
  7. derived from *bʰleh₃-✻ — “to blow; to inflate, swell; to bloom, flower”
  8. derived from fullō — “person who fulls cloth, fuller”
  9. derived from fullāre — “to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating, and pressing)”
  10. derived from defoler
  11. derived from fūlian — “to decay”
  12. derived from foulen — “to make dirty, soil, pollute”
  13. inherited from defilen — “to make dirty, befoul; rape; abuse; destroy; injure; oppress”
  14. suffixed as defilement — “defile + -ment”

Definitions

  1. The act of defiling.

    • The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up. Public display of the Nazi swastika and other Nazi symbols is already banned in Germany.

  2. The state of being defiled.

  3. The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from enfilading fire, as by…

    The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA