Defile: alternatives and connections

To attain; to get act; to hit.

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Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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Same as Deflour.

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The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the lus…

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To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the lus…

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To make foul; to soil.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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A bird.

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The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

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To spot; to stain; to blur.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

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To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the lus…

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