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profanate

profanate verb: to profane; to make profane.

Verb

profanate (third-person singular simple present profanates, present participle profanating, simple past and past participle profanated)

  1. To profane; to make profane.
    • In his play, Mr. Sobol insulted the honor of the Jewish victims and profanated their memory.1989 July 2, “The Holocaust: Of Plays and Playwrights”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015

Forms of profanate

third-person singular presentprofanates
present participleprofanating
past participleprofanated
pastprofanated

Origin of profanate

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin profānāt-, the past participial stem of profānō. By surface analysis, profane + -ate.

Questions about profanate

What does profanate mean?
Profanate means to profane; to make profane.
What part of speech is profanate?
Profanate is a verb.
What is the past tense of profanate?
The past tense of profanate is profanated.

Words near profanate in the dictionary

  1. proface
  2. profaculty
  3. profadol
  4. profamily
  5. profanable
  6. profanate
  7. profanated
  8. profanates
  9. profanating
  10. profanation
  11. profanations

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