Definizione monolingua

desecrate

desecrate (third-person singular simple present desecrates, present participle desecrating, simple past and past participle desecrated)

1. (transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
   • 1916 — James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10.

     Its reform -- reform! Youre 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 preachers 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. (transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
3. (transitive) To inappropriately change.
   • 1913 — William Alexander Lambeth and Warren H. Manning, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.

     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.

Definizione dizionario desecrate

	dissacrare
	Remove the consecration from a person or an object.

profanare

sconsacrare

Altri significati:

(transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.

(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.

(transitive) To inappropriately change.

to profane or violate sacredness

to inappropriately change

to remove the consecration