0 past simple and past participle of desecrate
1 to damage or show no respect towards something holy or very much respected:
Even nonbelievers may become enraged at news that a gravesite somewhere has been desecrated.
Statues were already being pulled down, cemeteries desecrated, street names changed.
The house was ransacked and plundered, the family vault in the church desecrated.
The soldiers' texts tell us that the military rules have been desecrated by the ' superiors'.
We too perceive our worldly home as ruined and desecrated, and we too assume there is a connection between our fallen nature and nature's fall.
From the 1670s, however, rhetorical effusions on innocence maltreated and holiness desecrated gave way to the plainer language of instruction in the political doctrines of divine right and nonresistance.
Areas of great beauty in our country-side and on our coasts have been desecrated by monstrous monuments to modern living.
That man must be hounded out of the country that he desecrated.
