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Is defile a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word defile is a Scrabble US word. The word defile is worth 10 points in Scrabble:
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Is defile a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word defile is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:
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Is defile a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word defile is a Words With Friends word. The word defile is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 60 words from defile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Late Middle English defilen (“to make dirty, befoul; to contaminate (the body or an organ) with dirt or disease; to pollute morally or spiritually; to desecrate, profane; to violate (the sanctity of marriage, an agreement or oath, etc.); to rape; to slander; to abuse; to destroy; to injure; to treat unfairly, oppress”) [and other forms], a variant of defoulen (“to make dirty, defile, pollute; to contaminate (the body or an organ) with dirt or disease; to pollute morally or spiritually; to desecrate, profane; to violate (the sanctity of marriage, an agreement or oath, etc.); to have sexual intercourse with; to rape; etc.”) (compare also defoilen). Defoulen is derived from Old French defouler (“to trample; to oppress; to outrage; to pollute; to violate”), from de- (prefix indicating actions are done more strongly or vigorously) + fouler (“to trample, tread on; to mistreat, oppress”), foler (“to destroy; to mistreat”) (from Vulgar Latin fullare (“to full (make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating, and pressing)”), from Latin fullō (“person who fulls cloth, fuller”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to blow; to inflate, swell; to bloom, flower”) or Etruscan 𐌘𐌖𐌋𐌖 (φulu)). The English word is analysable as de- (intensifying prefix) + file (“(archaic) to corrupt; to defile”).
The Middle English word defilen was probably formed from defoulen on the analogy of befilen (“to make dirty, befoul; to corrupt; to violate one's chastity; to desecrate; to slander”) and befoulen (“to make dirty, befoul; to violate one's chastity; to vilify”), respectively from filen (“to make foul, impure, or unclean, pollute; to pollute morally or spiritually; to desecrate, profane; to have sexual intercourse with; to rape; etc.”) and foulen (“to make dirty, pollute; to become dirty; to defecate; to deface or deform; to pollute morally or spiritually; to damage, injure; to destroy; to treat unfairly, oppress; to tread on, trample”). Filen and foulen are respectively from Old English fȳlan (“to befoul, defile, pollute”) and fūlian (“to foul”), both from Proto-West Germanic *fūlijan (“to make dirty, befoul”), from Proto-Germanic *fūlijaną (“to make dirty, befoul”), from *fūlaz (“dirty, foul; rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“foul; rotten”).
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
The verb is borrowed from French défiler (“to march; to parade”), from dé- (prefix indicating actions are done more strongly or vigorously) + one or both of the following:
The noun is borrowed from French défilé (“parade, procession”), a noun use of the past participle of défiler (verb); see above.
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled) (military, also figuratively)
defile (plural defiles)
The verb is borrowed from French défiler (“to arrange soldiers or fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire; to unthread”) (compare Middle French desfilher (“to unthread”)), from dé- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + enfiler (“to rake with gunfire, enfilade; to string on to a thread; to thread (a needle)”) (from en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into; on, on to’) + filer (verb) or file (noun); see etymology 2).
The noun is derived from the verb.
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
defile (plural defiles)
Internationalism, borrowed from Dutch defilé, from French défilé, from défiler (“to march past”), from file (“file”).
défilé (plural defile-defile, first-person possessive defileku, second-person possessive defilemu, third-person possessive defilenya)
From French défilé.
defìlē m (Cyrillic spelling дефѝле̄)
Borrowed from French défilé.
defile (definite accusative defileyi, plural defileler)