Defile has 2 syllables.
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| 1. | When straight, down-swooping from the hills meanwhile / the Harpies flap their clanging wings, and tear / the food, and all with filthy touch defile, / and, mixt with screams, uprose a sickening stench and vile. | |
| 2. | Thou art poured out as water, grow thou not; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, and didst defile his couch. |