Object

• yourselves: You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

• temple: If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.

• land: Deuteronomy 21:23 is purely Persian in forbidding a crucified man from being allowed to defile the sacred land.

• man: All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man.

Converse of object

• enter: As we entered the defile saw a gray horse of the 7th D.G. which had been shot in the shoulder.

Adjective modifier

• narrow: Finally, a narrow defile, a passage barely a mile across was found.

• rocky: I now seem to be borne along on the tide of a tempestuous torrent, through rocky defiles and beneath frowning precipices.

• deep: The McGillicuddy's Reeks gather so hard about that the deep defile can be perceived from a great distance.

Modifying Another Word

• somehow: Tegan bit her lip, feeling uncertain, somehow defiled.

• thus: God have mercy upon the world when the church itself becomes thus defiled!

• all: He sees men all defiled by coarse thoughts, coarse ways of living cruelties.

Preposition: with

• blood: For too long our land has been defiled with the blood of innocents shed in abortion clinics.

• sin: Are you defiled with sin and loathsome in your iniquity?

Preposition: by

• sin: Here man is defiled by many sins, ensnared in many passions, enslaved by many fears, and burdened with many cares.