desecrate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something. ambitransitive
    — 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'!
  2. To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate. transitive
  3. To change in an inappropriate and destructive manner. transitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Desecrated. rare
    — Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound—here are the temples most desecrate.

词形变化

desecrates present,singular,third-person desecrating participle,present desecrated participle,past desecrated past more desecrate comparative most desecrate superlative

词汇关系

近义词
unhallow corrupt desecrate profanate profane profanize pollute sully tarnish violate
反义词
consecrate
上位词
exaugurate deconsecrate desacralize desanctify disconsecrate secularize unconsecrate unhallow
衍生词
desecrated desecrater desecration desecrative desecrator undesecrate
相关词
pervert

词源

词源 1
From de- + stem of consecrate.
词源 2
From de- + stem of consecrate.
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