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DEFILING

8 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 11 pts

DEFILING is a valid 8-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 11 in Super Big Boggle.

DEFILING root DEFILE

Word family

DEFILE 3 DEFILES-s 5 DEFILED-d 5

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

DEFILER 5 DEFILERS 11 DEFILEMENT 11 DEFILEMENTS 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo make (someone or something) physically dirty or unclean; to befoul, to soil.
  2. transitiveTo make (someone or something) morally impure or unclean; to corrupt, to tarnish.
  3. transitiveTo act inappropriately towards or vandalize (something sacred or special); to desecrate, to profane.
    • To urinate on someone’s grave is an example of a way to defile it.
  4. transitiveTo cause (something or someone) to become ritually unclean.
  5. obsoletetransitiveTo deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
    • The serial rapist kidnapped and defiled a six-year-old girl.
  6. obsoletetransitiveTo dishonour (someone).
  7. intransitiveobsoleteTo become dirty or unclean.
  8. intransitiveobsoleteTo cause uncleanliness; specifically, to pass feces; to defecate.
  9. alsoarchaicfigurativelyintransitiveTo march in a single file or line; to file.
  10. alsofigurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo march across (a place) in files or lines.
  11. alsofigurativelyraretransitiveSynonym of defilade (“to fortify (something) as a protection from enfilading fire”).
noun
  1. alsofigurativelyA 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.
  2. alsofigurativelyAn act of marching in files or lines.
  3. alsofigurativelyA single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
  4. alsofigurativelyrareAn act of defilading a fortress or other place, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.