defile

«defile» in Mova's school dictionary: a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (defile, defiles, defiled, defiling); noun (defile, defiles)

meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) A defile is a narrow path or valley between high rocks or hills, where only a few can pass at a time. tree →

2) (verb, old use) To defile something is to make it dirty or spoil it so it cannot be used. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales an army or traveller must go through a defile in the mountains; in lessons, a narrow pass; the verb is an old word for making dirty

examples

• The army marched through the defile in single file. tree →
• The road ran through a narrow defile between two cliffs. tree →
• Do not defile the spring with rubbish. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
• The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
• And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.
• And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
• for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled —

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «defile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.