Desecrate

Quick meaning: Desecrate is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
2. (transitive) To change in an inappropriate and destructive manner.
3. (rare) Desecrated.

Example Sentences

Tonight nothing is too sacred, we desecrate and live in sin

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

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.

Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

Word Forms

• desecrates
• desecrating
• desecrated

Synonyms for desecrate

Depending on context, synonyms include defile, unhallow, deconsecrate, desanctify, pervert, corrupt.

Antonyms for desecrate

Common opposites include consecrate, hallow, sanctify, bless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include profane, violate, outrage, deconsecrate, defile, unhallow.

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