desecrate

Speech parts

1. desecrate - Adjective

2. desecrate - Verb

Meaning

To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

deconsecrate unhallow violate outrage profane defile pervert damage destroy waste abuse corrupt rape foul ruin
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Antonyms

consecrate further foster adore hallow aid
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Hypernyms

attack turn reverse assault assail set on

Derivatives

desecrated desecrating

Anagrams

decastere

Examples

There is no happiness in life and there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home. Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth. J. D. Salinger

We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book. Ismail Haniyeh

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character. Monica Lewinsky

desecrate a cemetery Source: Internet

violate the sanctity of the church Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

deseasonalize deseat desecate desecrated desecrater desecration