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.
Phrases
No hay frases