desecrate
verbEtymology
From de- + stem of consecrate.
Definitions
To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
- Tonight nothing is too sacred, we desecrate and live in sin
To remove the consecration from someone or something
To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
To change in an inappropriate and destructive manner.
- 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.
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Desecrated.
- Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound—here are the temples most desecrate.
The neighborhood
- synonymunhallow
- synonymcorrupt
- synonymdesecrate
- synonymprofanate
- synonymprofane
- synonymprofanize
- synonympollute
- synonymsully
- synonymtarnish
- synonymviolate
- antonymconsecrate
- neighborpervert
- neighborexaugurate
- neighbordeconsecrate
- neighbordesacralize
- neighbordesanctify
- neighbordisconsecrate
- neighborsecularize
- neighborunconsecrate
- neighborunhallow
Derived
desecrated, desecrater, desecration, desecrative, desecrator, undesecrate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at desecrate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at desecrate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at desecrate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA