defile
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I got in there the idea of a strain with the Lakers, but I wanted to make sure to not defile that relationship based upon certain things that I wasn’t going to dig into.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
A soldier who requested anonymity explained to AFP that since then the body had been guarded around the clock "so that rival groups do not defile him."
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
Some Parisians backed the move, but others - including heritage campaigners - said it was a bad idea and would "defile" the French capital's iconic monument.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024
“But we continue with the tradition of protecting the forest because our ancestors have told us not to defile the forest.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
It was then that he suggested visiting the hills at Udayagiri and Khandagiri, where a number of monastic dwellings were hewn out of the ground, facing one another across a defile.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing defile
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Grade 9, List 3
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