Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From de- + stem of consecrate.
Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound—here are the temples most desecrate.1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Myster of Marie Rogêt:
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| most desecrate | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more desecrate | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
From de- + stem of consecrate.
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 the innermost pale of the church by confessions at Class of your 'thorough conversion'!1916, James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, volume 10:
Tonight nothing is too sacred, we desecrate and live in sin1984, Quorthon, “Necromansy”:
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.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
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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| desecrates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| desecrated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| desecrated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| desecrating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
desecrated · desecrative · undesecrate · desecrator · desecrater · desecration
deconsecrate · exaugurate · desanctify · unconsecrate · unhallow · secularize · disconsecrate · desacralize
desecrate · profane · profanize · profanate · defile (profane or violate sacredness) · pollute · deconsecrate (remove the consecration) · corrupt · pervert (inappropriately change) · sully · desanctify (remove the consecration) · unhallow · tarnish · violate
is vanhelga (to profane or violate sacredness) · de entheiligen (to profane or violate sacredness) · sw -najisi (to profane or violate sacredness) · mi hāparu (to profane or violate sacredness) · ro profana (to inappropriately change) · it profanare (to profane or violate sacredness) · ca profanar (to profane or violate sacredness) · pt profanar (to remove the consecration) · it dissacrare (to inappropriately change) · hy սրբապղծել (to profane or violate sacredness) · cmn 褻瀆 /亵渎 (to profane or violate sacredness) · mi hāparu (to remove the consecration) · nl ontwijden (to profane or violate sacredness) · cmn 污辱 (to profane or violate sacredness) · nn vanære (to remove the consecration) · fr désécrer (to remove the consecration) · mi whakanoa (to remove the consecration) · pl sprofanować (to profane or violate sacredness) · nb vanhellige (to profane or violate sacredness) · yi פֿאַרשוועכן (to profane or violate sacredness) · nn krenkje (to remove the consecration) · bg оскверня́вам (to profane or violate sacredness) · nb skjende (to profane or violate sacredness) · nb krenke (to inappropriately change) · pl profanować (to profane or violate sacredness) · ro pângări (to profane or violate sacredness) · id menodai (to profane or violate sacredness) · nb vanhellige (to remove the consecration) · es profanar (to profane or violate sacredness) · pt profanar (to profane or violate sacredness) · de schänden (to profane or violate sacredness) · nb krenke (to remove the consecration) · fr profaner (to profane or violate sacredness) · pl zeświecczyć (to remove the consecration) · ro profana (to profane or violate sacredness) · gd mì-choisrig (to profane or violate sacredness) · ga truailligh (to profane or violate sacredness) · ko 더럽히다 (to profane or violate sacredness) · sv skända (to profane or violate sacredness) · enm polluten (to profane or violate sacredness) · ro desacraliza (to remove the consecration) · nn vanhelge (to remove the consecration) · nb nedverdige (to remove the consecration) · hu megszentségtelenít (to profane or violate sacredness) · da vanhellige (to profane or violate sacredness) · ko 훼손하다 (to profane or violate sacredness) · ru надруга́ться (to profane or violate sacredness) · fr profaner (to inappropriately change) · ja 冒す (to profane or violate sacredness) · mi whakapoke (to profane or violate sacredness) · ja 神聖を汚す (to profane or violate sacredness) · pt desconsagrar (to remove the consecration) · hy պղծել (to profane or violate sacredness) · ro spurca (to profane or violate sacredness) · pl zbezcześcić (to profane or violate sacredness) · ru оскверня́ть (to profane or violate sacredness) · it dissacrare (to profane or violate sacredness) · ig mebie (to profane or violate sacredness) · fi häpäistä (to profane or violate sacredness) · de entweihen (to profane or violate sacredness) · el βεβηλώνω (to profane or violate sacredness) · yi מחלל זײַן (to profane or violate sacredness) · nn nedverdige (to remove the consecration) · mk оскр́нави (to profane or violate sacredness) · ru оскверни́ть (to profane or violate sacredness) · fr désacraliser (to profane or violate sacredness) · nn vanhelge (to profane or violate sacredness) · he חילל \ חִלֵּל (to profane or violate sacredness) · nb vanære (to remove the consecration) · ja 冒涜する (to profane or violate sacredness) · nn krenkje (to inappropriately change) · es desecrar (to profane or violate sacredness) · pl bezcześcić (to profane or violate sacredness) · am አረከሰ (to profane or violate sacredness) · pl zeszpecić (to inappropriately change) · sv vanhelga (to profane or violate sacredness) · yi שענדן (to profane or violate sacredness) · sh oskrnaviti (to profane or violate sacredness) · gd mì-choisrig (to remove the consecration) · cs znesvětit (to profane or violate sacredness) · it sconsacrare (to remove the consecration) · fr désacraliser (to inappropriately change)