Desecrate

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  • transitive verb. To violate the sacredness of; profane.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To divest of sacred or hallowed character or office; divert from a sacred purpose or appropriation; treat with sacrilege; profane; pollute.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
  • verb. To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
  • verb. To inappropriately change.
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  • verb. violate the sacred character of a place or language
  • verb. remove the consecration from a person or an object