desecrates

Verb

desecrate (third-person singular simple present desecrates, present participle desecrating, simple past and past participle desecrated)

1. (ambitransitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
   • 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...1916, James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, volume 10

   Synonyms:

   defile

2. (transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.

   Synonyms:

   deconsecrate, desanctify

3. (transitive) 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.1913, William Alexander Lambeth, Warren H. Manning, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.

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