Defiles is valid Scrabble Word

Is defiles a scrabble word?
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Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is defiles valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for DEFILES in dictionary:

VERB:

DEFILE, to make dirty
damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil
desecrate or profane (something sacred)
rape or sexually assault (a woman)
(of troops) march in single file

NOUN:

a steep-sided narrow gorge or passage (originally one requiring troops to march in single file)

Words related to DEFILES

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How to use DEFILES in a sentence

They both held back for some time, on the different sides of the defiles, the roads being dangerous to either party.
All the chief defiles of the Alps fell into its hands.
This is, because falsity in spiritual things either takes away religion or defiles it.
When he had passed these, he came upon defiles surrounded on all sides with swamps, the interior of which was barred from easy approach by the pinnacle of a bank in front.
Their invasions into the Russian limits ceased from the time when Azlan Khan retained possession of the defiles which lead into his territories from Avar.
With the utmost haste Ottocar urged his troops down through the defiles of the Bohemian mountains, hoping to save the capital.
General Yendome, at the head of three thousand horse, swept through the defiles of the Pyrenees, and, with exultant music and waving banners, joined Philip at Valladolid.
It was not until the close of March that Marshal Neuperg was able to force his way through these defiles and enter Silesia.
By very sagacious movements the general soon became master of all the defiles of the Bavarian mountains.
The rivulets on the west flow in deep defiles, and the elevation on which we travel makes it certain that no water can come from the lower lands on the west.

The defiles of the Khyber and the peaks of the Black Mountain alike witness his exploits.
From the hidden defiles, the buttes and ranges, the hills and plains, the cowboys drew their net to the centre.
But in doing this he was obliged to enter the mountain defiles in which the former army had met its fate.
They placed with him slips of paper to serve as passports through guarded gates and perilous defiles in the other world.
This is a thing which easily happens, and defiles very many, unless faith be constantly inculcated along with works.
It consisted of two narrow defiles or gorges, between which was a tolerably spacious plain, but shut in on each side by mountains.
Without these adventitious aids the cavalry penetrated the northern defiles of the hills, following substantially the route taken by all the ancient invaders from the north.
The mountaineers posted themselves on the heights, and, hidden by trees, shot down their enemies in scores as they advanced in column up the narrow defiles.
The man who utters lies defiles not only the air, but his own heart.
John Bull is quite out of his depth in the defiles of the Balkans.
The Saxons, however, were detained, owing to the terrible weather and the enormous difficulty of the defiles, and only crossed on the 13th.
Leitmeritz, lying as it did but a short distance beyond the mouth of the defiles leading into Saxony, was an admirably chosen position.
In one of the defiles he lost his favorite horse, and in his book he bids a touching farewell to the friendly steed which had shared with him so many toils and dangers.
It is scarcely larger than an English county, and a considerable portion of it is occupied by rocky mountains and barren defiles where cultivation is impossible.
They passed through inaccessible defiles inhabited by ferocious beasts, and they climbed steep mountains.
The scenery is not however bold, but on the contrary very poor compared with the defiles of the Irrawadi.
The analogous points between the Indus and Irrawadi consist in defiles and the want of branches for a long way above their mouths.
As the day dawned we entered the stern and savage defiles of the Despena Perros, which equals the wild landscapes of Salvator Rosa.

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