defiler

1. 1.

   a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment

   Synonymspolluter

   Broaderbad person

Other forms of defiler

plural

defilers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about defiler

What does defiler mean?

defiler means "a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment".

How many syllables are in defiler?

defiler has 3 syllables: de-fi-ler. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for defiler?

Close synonyms include polluter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is defiler a common word?

defiler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.