Defile

a. [A.S. afylum, befylan, gefylan. See FOUL.] To make foul, filthy, or unclean; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. "This pitch... doth defile." -Shaks. -To contaminate; to corrupt; to vitiate; to taint. "Let not any instances of sin defile your requests."- Wake. -To sully; to smut; to soil; to tarnish; to blot the reputation of. "However his character may be defiled by mean and dirty hands."-Swift. -To violate the chastity of; to ravish; to debauch. "The husband murder'd, and the wife defil'd."-Prior. -To make legally or ritually unclean. "Neither shall he defile himself for his father.'- Lev . xxi. ii.