0 to damage a sacred or special place or thing, or to treat it with disrespect -- skænde; vanhellige
Vandals desecrated the grave.
Even nonbelievers may become enraged at news that a gravesite somewhere has been desecrated.
The use of money instead of some other unit may therefore send a message that can be conceived as desecrating the value of life.
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.
It was dishonourable to desecrate the dead.
