transitive. = defile, v.1

transitive. To corrupt or defile (someone or something). In later examples with specific reference to the violation of a woman's chastity or…

To render morally foul or polluted; to destroy the ideal purity of; to corrupt, taint, sully; = defile, v.1 3. Obsolete exc. archaic.

To spot or stain with sin or impurity.

To defile or pollute with sin or other moral stain. Also absol.

transitive. To pollute or sully (someone or something) morally or spiritually; to defile; to dishonour, disgrace.

figurative. To defile or pollute morally; to corrupt.

figurative. To blacken morally, to make or declare guilty; to defile. (Still dialect.)

To impair morally or ideally; to sully, stain, spoil.

transitive. To make morally impure; to violate the purity or sanctity of; to profane or desecrate; †to render ceremonially unclean (obsolete). Now…

transitive. To stain or taint, esp. with moral defilement, or with the imputation of guilt or shameful conduct; to stigmatize; rarely (quot. 1541)…

transitive. To defile, pollute.

To defile.

transitive. To sully the moral character, reputation, etc., of; to stain, tarnish (a reputation, etc.). Now rare.

figurative. To defile or corrupt morally; to taint with guilt or vice.

To render morally foul or polluted; to destroy the ideal purity of; to corrupt, taint, sully.

transitive. To treat without due reverence; to profane, defile; spec. to desecrate or destroy (a sacred place).

To make brown (the face or skin), esp. by exposure to the sun or weather; to embrown, sunburn; hence, to make dark or tawny in colour.

figurative. (a) Chiefly const. with, and usually implying something base or discreditable; (b) (without const.), to attempt to discredit (a…

figurative. To befoul, stain, disfigure; to asperse, to cover with abuse.

transitive. figurative. To defile. Also reflexive. Obsolete.

transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To cause (a thing) to be less attractive; to stain, tarnish. Also intransitive.

figurative. To stain with some fault or imperfection.

figurative. To asperse with reproach or abuse; to spot or sully with vice.

transitive. To pollute, defile; to soil, stain, tarnish. in immaterial sense.

transitive. To stain, spot, or defile all over. Chiefly figurative.

transitive. To discolour; figurative to stain.

To defile.

transitive. To defile, pollute; to debase.

figurative. To stain, sully, besmirch, etc., morally or otherwise.

transitive. = discolour, v. 1a, 2.

intransitive. To do casual work in a printing-house where one is not regularly employed (see quots.). †Also const. on (a firm).

figurative. To take away from the purity of, cast a stain upon; to sully, taint; to bring disgrace upon.

figurative. To dirty or defile as with tar; esp. in tarred with the same stick (or brush), stained with the same or similar faults or obnoxious…

transitive. figurative. To debase, sully, dishonour; esp. to damage (a person's reputation, name, etc.).