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[ UK /dˈɛsɪkɹˌe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /dɛsəˈkɹeɪt, dɛzəˈkɹeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. violate the sacred character of a place or language
    violate the sanctity of the church
    desecrate a cemetery
    profane the name of God
  2. remove the consecration from a person or an object

How To Use desecrate In A Sentence

  • (Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia. Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
  • Yes, well that's to protect against intruders who want to desecrate this holy room.
  • I'm a light heavyweight, but this guy looked well over heavyweight and his tattoos made him look like a statue desecrated by graffiti.
  • We pollute, litter and desecrate our own country because we live in hermetic air-conditioned vinyl castles. Police Continue Serial Rapist DNA Hunt at cvillenews.com
  • To desecrate a holy spring is considered profanity.
  • Over the years I have become more and more aggravated by the way Americans butcher the English language, by the way members of the media misuse terms, by the charlatanical ways in which corrupt persons in power desecrate noble words such as "democracy" which, coming from their mouths, is the equivalent of the word "love" emanating from the mouth of a whore. Award Winning author, journalist and humorist, Burton H. Wolfe is Interviewed
  • In some anterior time, the burial mound had been desecrated, its jeweled contents taken away.
  • Who can possibly consider that they have the right to desecrate our countryside in such a way?
  • The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations. Heart's Desire
  • She claimed that ‘sacred, hallowed turf’ had been violated and desecrated with no concern for those who lost friends and colleagues in a war in the defence of their country.
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