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Desecrate
desecrate
(desecrates, desecrating, desecrated) If someone desecrates something which is considered to be holy or very special, they deliberately damage or insult it. She shouldn’t have desecrated the picture of a religious leader... VERB: V n • desecration The whole area has been shocked by the desecration of the cemetery. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n
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transitive verb (-crated; -crating) Etymology: de- + -secrate (as in consecrate) Date: 1675 1. to violate the sanctity of ; profane ~ a shrine 2. to treat disrespectfully, irreverently, or outrageously the kind of shore development…that has ~d so many waterfronts — John Fischer • ~r or desecrator noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 violate (a sacred place or thing) with violence, profanity, etc. 2 deprive (a church, a sacred object, etc.) of sanctity; deconsecrate. Derivatives desecration n. desecrator n. Etymology: DE- + CONSECRATE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. оскверненный 2. осквернять (святыню) to desecrate a temple —- осквернить храм 3. редк. посвящать себя служению злу ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1674, formed from de- "do the opposite of" + (con)secrate. Latin desecrare meant "to make holy." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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