1. Treated with contempt
   "many desecrated shrines and cemeteries"

1. Violate the sacred character of a place or language
   "desecrate a cemetery"
   - profane, outrage, violate 
2. Remove the consecration from a person or an object
   - unhallow, deconsecrate

See also: deconsecrated, desecration, profaned, violated

Type of: assail, assault, attack, change by reversal, reverse, set on, turn

Antonym: consecrate, consecrated

Encyclopedia: Desecrate

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