Desecrate

Definitions: Desecrate

Desecrate

Verb

1. Violate the sacred character of a place, such as a graveyard.

2. Remove the consecration from a person or an object.

Date "desecrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Note: Desecrate \Des"e*crate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Desecrated; present participle verb or noun Desecrating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Desecrate

Synonyms: deconsecrate (v), outrage (v), profane (v), violate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: consecrate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disrespect	Dishonor, desecrate; insult, affront, outrage.
Impiety	Verb: be impious; Adjective:, profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear; (malediction); commit sacrilege.
Misuse	Desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Desecrate

English words defined with "desecrate": Desecrating ♦ profanatory ♦ Unconsecrate, Unhallow. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Thing is, there isn't much to do in prison except desecrate your flesh. (Cape Fear; writing credit: John D. MacDonald; James R. Webb)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Divine Desecrate Complete (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Hong Kong	It is illegal to desecrate publicly and willfully a PRC or Hong Kong flag or emblem. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Desecrate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Desecrate" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	91.67%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Expression using "desecrate": desecrate the sabbath. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "desecrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përdhos (pollute, profane), fyej (affront, aggrieve, damnify, deal, disoblige, displease, grieve, injure, insult, offend, outrage, pique, revile, trespass, vex, vituperate). (various references)

Arabic		‏إنتهك قدسية, ‏دنس (defile, grubby, impure, ordure, pollute, pollution, profane, profanity, scum, soil, sullying, violate). (various references)

Bulgarian		скверня (pollute), осквернявам (befoul, contaminate, defile, do violence to, pollute, profane, violate). (various references)

Czech		zprofanovat (defile, profane), zneuctít (dishonor, dishonour, pollute, profane, spatter), znesvìtit (defile, profane, violate), zhanobit (taint, violate), odsvìtit. (various references)

Farsi		بی حرمت کردن (Defile). (various references)

Finnish		häpäistä (disgrace, dishonour, profane, violate). (various references)

French		profaner (defile). (various references)

German		entweihen (defile, pollute, profane, violate), entheiligen (defile, profane). (various references)

Greek		βεβηλώνω (besmirch, defile). (various references)

Hebrew		לחלל �"ק�"וש (blaspheme, profane), לחלל (debase, defile, profane, violate). (various references)

Hungarian		megszentségtelenít (deconsecrate, dishallow, profane, to desecrate, to profane, to violate), meggyaláz (outrage, put to shame, to defile, to deflower, to desecrate, to dishonour, to outrage, to profane, to soil, to violate). (various references)

Indonesian		mencemari (defile, outrage, soil), menajiskan. (various references)

Italian		sconsacrare (deconsecrate, defrock), profanare (defile, profane). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'す (to brave, to desecrate, to face, to profane, to risk, to venture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おかす (to brave, to commit, to desecrate, to face, to intrude on, to invade, to perpetrate, to profane, to raid, to rape, to risk, to trespass, to venture, to violate). (various references)

Manx		trullaghey (canker, debauch, deprave, desecration, doctor, profane; denaturation, sexually corrupt). (various references)

Norwegian		vanhellige, skjende. (various references)

Pig Latin		esecrateday

Portuguese		desconsagrar, profanar (defile, dishallow, pollute, profane, violate). (various references)

Romanian		spurca (besmear, besmirch, defile, dirty, smear, smirch, soil, taint, vitiate), profana (defile, pollute, profane, violate), pângãri (besmear, defile, dishonor, dishonour, foul, stain, violate), întina (taint). (various references)

Russian		осквернять (befoul, contaminate, defile, pollute, profane, violate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oskrnaviti (deconsecrate, defile, dishallow, profain). (various references)

Spanish		profanar (defile, pollute, profane). (various references)

Swedish		vanhelga (deflower, profane, violate). (various references)

Turkish		kutsallığını bozmak, kutsal saymamak, hakaret etmek (affront, defame, give affront to, insult, outrage, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slight, vituperate). (various references)

Ukranian		оскверняти (contaminate, profane, soil, violate), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	profana, profanabo, profanas, profanasti, profanatis, profanatum, profanaverint, profano, temero. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "desecrate": desecrated, desecrater, desecraters, desecrates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Desecrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desacrate, descrate, descreate, descrite, desecrait, deserate, desicrate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "desecrate" (pronounced dezukrā"t or desukrā"t)
4	-k r ā" t	crate.
3	-r ā" t	berate, freight, grate, great, irate, overrate, prorate, rate, straight, Strait, trait, underrate.
4	-k r ā" t	crate.
3	-r ā" t	berate, freight, grate, great, irate, overrate, prorate, rate, straight, Strait, trait, underrate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: decrease, reseated, resected, secreted.
	-2 letters: catered, cerated, cerates, creased, created, creates, crested, dearest, decares, decease, decrees, derates, ecartes, erected, reacted, recedes, redacts, redates, reested, scarted, seceder, secrete, sedater, steered.
	-3 letters: aretes, cadets, cadres, carets, carted, cartes, caster, caters, ceased, cedars, ceders, cerate, certes, crated, crates, crease, create, creeds, creese, daters, decare, decree, derate.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: decameters, deprecates, desecrated, desecrater, desecrates, reeducates.
	+2 letters: advertences, carpetweeds, decelerates, depreciates, desecraters, eviscerated, redecorates, rededicates, reescalated.
	+3 letters: advertencies, confederates, decelerators, decemvirates, decerebrates, deconsecrate, decrepitates, overeducates.
	+4 letters: decelerations, decentralizes, deconsecrated, deconsecrates, determinacies, inadvertences, overdecorates, overmedicates, preadolescent, reconsecrated, transcendence.
	+5 letters: celebratedness, creditableness, decerebrations, deconcentrates, decorativeness, diastereomeric, disrespectable, farfetchedness, inadvertencies, intermediacies, overspeculated, preadolescents, reorchestrated, transcendences, undersecretary.
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