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defile

English

  1. 🔊 a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
  2. 🔊 place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
    “sully someone's reputation”
  3. 🔊 spot, stain, or pollute
    “The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it”
  4. 🔊 make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
    “The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 angostura defile, narrow passage

Similar words

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