Bespatter vs Defile - What's the difference?
bespatter | defile | Related terms |
To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.
To soil by spattering.
(figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.
to make impure; to make dirty.
A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
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.
(archaic) To march in a single file.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.138:
march-past
Bespatter is a related term of defile.
As a verb bespatter
is to spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.As a noun defile is
fashion show.bespatter
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Verb
(en verb)defile
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(defil)Synonyms
* contaminate * polluteAntonyms
* purifyEtymology 2
Earlier (defilee), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)See also
* glenVerb
(defil)- They defiled down a gully to the water and bunched and jerked their noses at it and came back.
