What is another word for Defiling?

Pronunciation: [dɪfˈa͡ɪlɪŋ] (IPA)

Defiling is a word that has a negative connotation and is often used to describe actions that are impure, disrespectful, or corrupt. Some synonyms for defiling include contaminating, polluting, tainting, corrupting, desecrating, and profaning. These words imply a violation of something sacred or pure, such as a religious site, a natural environment, or a moral code. Other synonyms for defiling include tarnishing, besmirching, staining, and sullying, which all suggest a damaging or destructive impact on something that was previously clean or innocent. Regardless of the context, using synonyms for defiling can help add depth and nuance to your language.

What are the hypernyms for Defiling?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Defiling

The Defiling influence had left its mark.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
She must communicate the dread Defiling fact with her own lips!
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
Only the mud came up, filthy, Defiling, and the rustics laughed in loud and foolish laughter to see the havoc they had wrought.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang

Famous quotes with Defiling

  • Defiling their shadows, infidels, accursed of Allah, with fingernails that are foot-long daggers, with mouths agape like cauldrons full of teeth on the boil, with eyes all fire, shaitans possessed of Iblis, clanking into their wars all linked, like slaves, with iron chains. Murad Bey, the huge, the single-blowed ox-beheader, saw without too much surprise mild-looking pale men dressed in blue, holding guns, drawn up in squares six deep as though in some massed dance depictive of orchard walls. At the corners of the squares were heavy giins and gunners. There did not seem to be many horsemen. Murad said a prayer within, raised his scimitar to heaven and yelled a fierce and holy word. The word was taken up, many thousandfold, and in a kind of gloved thunder the Mamelukes threw themselves on to the infidel right and nearly broke it. But the squares healed themselves at once, and the cavalry of the faithful crashed in three avenging prongs along the fire-spitting avenues between the walls. A great gun uttered earthquake language at them from within a square, and, rearing and cursing the curses of the archangels of Islam on to the uncircumcized, they wheeled and swung towards their protective village of Embabeh. There they encountered certain of the blue-clad infidel horde on the flat roofs of the houses, coughing musket-fire at them. But then disaster sang along their lines from the rear as shell after shell crunched and the Mamelukes roared in panic and burden to the screams of their terrified mounts, to whose ears these noises were new. Their rear dissolving, their retreat cut off, most sought the only way, that of the river. They plunged in, horseless, seeking to swim across to join the inactive horde of Ibrahim, waiting for .action that could now never come. Murad Bey, with such of his horsemen as were left, yelped off inland to Gizeh.
    Anthony Burgess

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