different between defile vs violate
defile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English defilen (“to make dirty”), alteration (due to Middle English defoulen, defoilen (“to trample, abuse”)) of Middle English befilen (“to befoul, to defile, to make foul”), from Old English bef?lan (“to befoul, defile”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *f?lijan? (“to defile, make filthy”). Equivalent to de- +? file. Cognate with Dutch bevuilen (“to defile, soil”). More at de-, file, be-, and foul.
Verb
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
- (transitive) To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
- (transitive) To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
- (transitive) To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
Synonyms
- (make unclean): contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully; see also Thesaurus:dirty
- (vandalize something considered sacred): desecrate, profane; see also Thesaurus:desecrate
- (violate chastity of): ravish, violate, vitiate
Antonyms
- (make unclean): clean, purify; see also Thesaurus:make clean
- (vandalize something considered sacred): sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Earlier defilee, from French défilé, from défiler (“to march past”), from file (“file”).
Noun
defile (plural defiles)
- A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
- 1958, Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (translator), "Life of Nicias" in Lives: The Fall of the Roman Republic
- The next morning the enemy were on the march before him, seized the defiles, blocked the fords of the rivers, destroyed the bridges, and sent out cavalry to patrol the open ground, so as to oppose the Athenians at every step as they retreated.
- 1958, Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (translator), "Life of Nicias" in Lives: The Fall of the Roman Republic
- A single file, such as of soldiers.
- The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
Translations
See also
- glen
Verb
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
- (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file; to file.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
- They defiled down a gully to the water and bunched and jerked their noses at it and came back.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
Translations
Anagrams
- e-filed
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French défilé.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /def?le?/
- Hyphenation: de?fi?le
Noun
defìl? m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- march-past
Declension
References
- “defile” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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violate
English
Etymology
From Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va???le?t/
Verb
violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- Antonyms: comply, obey
- (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)
- If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.
- 2014, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (page 165)
- Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.
- 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)
Related terms
- violation
Derived terms
- violable
- violative
Translations
Further reading
- violate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- violate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Verb
violate
- second-person plural present of violare
- second-person plural imperative of violare
- feminine plural past participle of violare
Anagrams
- evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate
Latin
Verb
viol?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of viol?
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