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Desecrate

//ˈdɛs.ɪ.kɹeɪ̯t// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Desecrated. rare

    "Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound—here are the temples most desecrate."

Verb
  1. 1
    To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something. transitive

    "It's reform -- reform! You're going to 'turn over a new leaf,' and all that, and sign the pledge, and quit cigars, and go to work, and pay your debts, and gravitate back into Sunday-school, where you can make love to the preacher's daughter under the guise of religion, and desecrate the sanctity of the innermost pale of the church by confessions at Class of your 'thorough conversion'!"

  2. 2
    remove the consecration from a person or an object wordnet
  3. 3
    To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate. transitive
  4. 4
    violate the sacred character of a place or language wordnet
  5. 5
    To change in an inappropriate and destructive manner. transitive

    "A subsequent owner has desecrated the main hall and robbed it of its grandeur by putting in a floor just beneath the circular windows in order to make an upper room over the hall."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From de- + stem of consecrate.

Etymology 2

From de- + stem of consecrate.

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