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combe
English
Alternative forms
- comb
- coomb
- coombe
Etymology
From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, from Proto-Brythonic (compare Welsh cwm), from Proto-Celtic *kumb?. Doublet of cwm.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ko?om, IPA(key): /ku?m/
- Homophone: cwm
- Rhymes: -u?m
Noun
combe (plural combes)
- A valley, often wooded and often with no river
- 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
- 1805, Robert Southey, Madoc
- 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
- A cirque.
Usage notes
Used, especially in South West England, in many placenames, e.g. Compton, Wycombe.
Translations
Further reading
- combe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Transalpine Gaulish *cumba, from Proto-Celtic *kumb?. Compare Breton komm (“river-bed”), Irish com, Welsh cwm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??b/
Noun
combe f (plural combes)
- (geography) combe (valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river)
Further reading
- “combe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
combe f
- plural of comba
Middle English
Noun
combe
- Alternative form of comb
Spanish
Verb
combe
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of combar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of combar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of combar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of combar.
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defile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fa?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English defilen (“to make dirty”), alteration (due to Middle English defoulen, defoilen (“to trample, abuse”)) of Middle English befilen (“to befoul, to defile, to make foul”), from Old English bef?lan (“to befoul, defile”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *f?lijan? (“to defile, make filthy”). Equivalent to de- +? file. Cognate with Dutch bevuilen (“to defile, soil”). More at de-, file, be-, and foul.
Verb
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
- (transitive) To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul.
- (transitive) To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate
- (transitive) To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape
Synonyms
- (make unclean): contaminate, pollute, spoil, sully; see also Thesaurus:dirty
- (vandalize something considered sacred): desecrate, profane; see also Thesaurus:desecrate
- (violate chastity of): ravish, violate, vitiate
Antonyms
- (make unclean): clean, purify; see also Thesaurus:make clean
- (vandalize something considered sacred): sanctify; see also Thesaurus:consecrate
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Earlier defilee, from French défilé, from défiler (“to march past”), from file (“file”).
Noun
defile (plural defiles)
- A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
- 1958, Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (translator), "Life of Nicias" in Lives: The Fall of the Roman Republic
- The next morning the enemy were on the march before him, seized the defiles, blocked the fords of the rivers, destroyed the bridges, and sent out cavalry to patrol the open ground, so as to oppose the Athenians at every step as they retreated.
- 1958, Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (translator), "Life of Nicias" in Lives: The Fall of the Roman Republic
- 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.
Translations
See also
- glen
Verb
defile (third-person singular simple present defiles, present participle defiling, simple past and past participle defiled)
- (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file; to file.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
- They defiled down a gully to the water and bunched and jerked their noses at it and came back.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.138:
Translations
Anagrams
- e-filed
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From French défilé.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /def?le?/
- Hyphenation: de?fi?le
Noun
defìl? m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)
- march-past
Declension
References
- “defile” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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