Defile definition
Defile means to intentionally make physically unclean.
Defile means by Scriptural, ‘disqualify’ by Rabbinical law. The former requires sunset, but the latter requires immersion only. Also, the former disqualifies one in respect of terumah too, but not the latter.
Defile means to render an object unclean in the sense that it can render another object unclean (or disqualified) in turn; ‘disqualify’ means to render an object unfit for use on account of uncleanness, but that object cannot disqualify another object in turn; v Pes. (Sonc. ed.) p. 62 n. 2 for this and the rest of the passage.
More Definitions of Defile
Defile means to intentionally make
Defile means to intentionally make physically