Meanings (ES + gloss)
angostura • desfiladero • estrecho • paso
A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
[T]hese granite hills, thousands of feet high, were impracticable for heavy troops: the passes through them being formidable defiles, very costly to assault or cover.
[…] I roam / By Thrasimene's lake, in the defiles / Fatal to Roman rashness, more at home; […]
desfile • fila india
A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
contaminar • ensuciar • impurificar • profanar
To make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
At mankind's feast, I take my place / In solemn, sanctimonious state, / And have the air of saying grace / While I defile the dinner plate.
Spain might now boast that the stain of heresy no longer defiled the hem of her garment. But at what a price was this purchased!
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desfilar
To march in a single file or line; to file.
As the multitude defiled into the square, the inquisitors took their place on the seats prepared for their reception.
They [pigs] defiled down a gully to the water and bunched and jerked their noses at it and came back.
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