The act of making something dirty or impure, especially in a moral or spiritual sense. The defilement of the sacred site was considered a grave offense by the community.
The state of being polluted or desecrated. The river suffered defilement from the industrial waste dumped into it.
Illegal or forced sexual intercourse, especially with a minor; statutory rape (chiefly legal or archaic). The court found him guilty of the defilement of a thirteen-year-old girl.