Defiled

Definitions: Defiled

Defiled

Adjective

1. Morally blemished; stained or impure.

2. Having the purity corrupted; made unclean; "the defiled Temple".

Date "defiled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Defiled

Synonym: maculate (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Uncleanness	Phrase: " they that touch pitch will be defiled ".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Defiled

English words defined with "defiled": befoul ♦ Daggle-tailed, defile ♦ foul ♦ Inviolated ♦ Lustration ♦ maculate ♦ profane ♦ unconsecrated, unsanctified. (references)

Specialty definitions using "defiled": Beautiful Parricide ♦ chanukkah ♦ hanukka ♦ Nasty, Nice ♦ Phineus ♦ slime water ♦ Timaeus ♦ Water of separation. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Mother's Love: Defiled by Incest (reference) Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts : Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (reference) Loyalty Defiled [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Mind managers and defiled doordarshan (reference) The pit: a group encounter defiled (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Horace	He has defiled his father's grave.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Uganda	The group reportedly defiled and raped a 15-year-old girl between August and September 1999. In November 2000, the Director of Public Prosecutions ordered that Bushara and his followers be transferred from the Buganda Magistrates' Court to Luweero where the offenses allegedly were committed. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Defiled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Defiled" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	66.67%	20	78,262
Lexical Verb (past tense)	26.67%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	6.67%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "defiled".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Igeal	N/A	Biblical	Defiled
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "defiled": be defiled ♦ become defiled. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "defiled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bëhem i fëlliqur (become defiled). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملوث (contaminated, dirty, filed, foul, impure, infectious, polluted, polluter, spotted, staining), ‏مدنس (profane, sacrilegious, soiled), ‏نجس (defile, impure, pollute, profane, sinful, unclean, untouchable), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish). (various references)

Bulgarian		замърсен съм (become defiled). (various references)

Chinese		�'成纵列前进 (Defiling). (various references)

French		souillé, sale, profané, féculent. (various references)

German		defilierte. (various references)

Hebrew		מוכתם (notorious, spotted, stained, sullied), טמא (contaminated, impure, unclean), סאוב (dirty, sullied). (various references)

Hungarian		piszkossá válik (become defiled). (various references)

Manx		sollit (contaminated, dirted, soiled). (various references)

Pig Latin		efiledday

Russian		загрязниться (become defiled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ukaljati (become defiled, befoul, dirty, mire, soil, stain, sully). (various references)

Spanish		estar profanado (become defiled), estar manchado (become defiled). (various references)

Swedish		bli förorenad (become defiled). (various references)

Welsh		halog (polluted). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Avestan	200-600	âhitica. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 34, Verse 27
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Oi de uioi iakwb eishlqon epi touV traumatiaV kai dihrpasan thn polin en h emianan dinan thn adelfhn autwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Quibus egressis inruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Iacob et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The which goon oute, the tother sones of Jacob fellen vpon the slayn men, and thei distruyden the cyte, in to vengeaunce of the stupre,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Than came the sonnes of Iacob vpon the deede and spoyled the cyte because they had defyled their sister:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city; because they had defiled their sister.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And the sons of Jacob came on them when they were wounded and made waste the town because of what had been done to their sister;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 34, Verse 27
Bulgarian	Тогава Якововите синове се спуснаха върху убитите и ограбиха града, понеже бяха осквернили сестра им.
Cebuano	Ang mga anak nga lalake ni Jacob nangadto sa mga nangamatay ug nanagpanulis sila sa lungsod tungod kay gihugawan nila ang ilang igsoon nga babaye.
Chinese	雅各的 �' 子們 � 為他們的妹子受了玷污、就來到被殺的人那裡、 �"� � 那城、
Croatian	Ostali Jakovljevi sinovi doðu na ubijene i opustoše grad što je njihova sestra bila obešèašæena.
Danish	Så kastede Jakobs Sønner sig over de faldne og plyndrede Byen, fordi de havde skændet deres Søster;
Dutch	De zonen van Jakob kwamen over de verslagenen, en plunderden de stad, omdat zij hun zuster verontreinigd hadden.
Finnish	Ja Jaakobin pojat karkasivat haavoitettujen kimppuun ja ryöstivät kaupungin, sentähden että he olivat raiskanneet heidän sisarensa.
French	Les fils de Jacob se jetèrent sur les morts, et pillèrent la ville, parce qu`on avait déshonoré leur soeur.
German	Da kamen die Söhne Jakobs über die erschlagenen und plünderten die Stadt, darum daß sie hatten ihre Schwester geschändet.
Haitian Creole	Lòt pitit Jakòb yo menm jete kò yo sou kadav yo, yo piye lavil la byen piye, paske moun lavil la te avili sè yo a.
Hungarian	A Jákób fiai a megölteknek esének és feldúlák a várost, mivelhogy megszeplõsítették vala az õ húgokat.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Setelah pembantaian itu, anak-anak Yakub yang lain merampok kota itu sebagai balas dendam karena adik mereka telah dinodai kehormatannya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Setelah sudah segala orang itu dibunuh, maka datanglah segala anak laki-laki Yakub menjarah rayah dalam negeri itu sebab saudara mereka itu telah dipercabul oranglah.
Italian	I figli di Giacobbe si buttarono sui cadaveri e saccheggiarono la citt� , perché quelli avevano disonorato la loro sorella.
Korean	야 곱 의 여 러 아 �"� 이 그 시 체 있 �" 성 으 로 가 서 노 략 하 였 으 니 이 �" 그 �"� 이 그 누 이 를 �" 럽 힌 연 � 라
Maori	Na ka haere nga tama a Hakopa ki te hunga i patua, a pahuatia ana e ratou te pa, mo to ratou tuahine i whakapokea e ratou.
Modern Greek	Οι δε υιοι του Ιακωβ ηλθον επι τους πεφονευμενους και διηρπασαν την πολιν, επειδη ειχον μιανει την αδελφην αυτων.
Norwegian	Jakobs sønner kom over de drepte og plyndret byen, fordi deres søster var blitt vanæret.
Portuguese	Vieram os filhos de Jacó aos mortos e saquearam a cidade; porquanto haviam contaminado a sua irmã.
Rumanian	Fiii lui Iacov s`au aruncat asupra celor moryi, wi au jqfuit cetatea, pentrucq necinstiserq pe sora lor.
Russian	уЩОПЧШС йБЛПЧБ � ТЙЫМЙ Л Х�'ЙФЩН Й ТБЪЗТБ�'ЙМЙ ЗПТП�" ЪБ ФП, ЮФП П�'ЕУЮЕУФЙМЙ УЕУФТХ ЙИ.
Spanish	Y los hijos de Jacob pasaron sobre los muertos y saquearon la ciudad, porque habían mancillado a su hermana.
Swedish	Och Jakobs söner kommo över de slagna och plundrade staden, därför att deras syster hade blivit skändad;
Thai	พวกบุตรชายของยาโคบเข้าไปตามบ้านคนตาย และปล้นเมืองนั้น เพราะคนเหล่านั้นไ�"้ทำอนาจารต่อน้องสาวของเขา
Ukrainian	Сини Якова напали на трупи, і пограбували місто за те, що вони збезчестили їхню сестру.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words ending with "defiled": undefiled. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Defiled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adeyfield, Darfield, defial, defil, defileth, deflie, defole, Delfield, demile, Denfield, depile, depilex, derile, Derilei, desfile, Dewilde, dudfiled, Dutfield, t'field, Tiffield. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: fielded.
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-f-i-l"
	-1 letter: defied, defile, elided, fiddle.
	-2 letters: deled, edile, elide, felid, field, filed, flied, idled.
	-3 letters: deed, defi, deil, dele, delf, deli, died, diel, eide, feed, feel, file, fled, flee, idle, lied, lief, life.
	-4 letters: dee, del, did, die, eel, eld, elf, fed, fee, fid, fie, fil, led, lee, lei, lid, lie.
	-5 letters: de, ed, ef, el, id, if, li.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-f-i-l"
	+1 letter: defilade.
	+2 letters: defiladed, defilades, enfiladed, undefiled.
	+3 letters: deadlifted, defoliated, feudalized, fiddlehead, midfielder, misfielded.
	+4 letters: decalcified, federalized, fiddleheads, interfolded, lifeguarded, midfielders.
	+5 letters: declassified, deformalized, desulfurized, feebleminded, paddlefishes, resolidified, undefoliated.
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