desecrate
verb (used with object)
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
desecrator
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a word derived from
desecrate.
Example Sentences
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Netflix needs to decide whether it is cinema’s champion or its desecrator because it can’t easily be both.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2019
The audience filed out denouncing the Hearstling as a "desecrator," a "barbarian," a "vandal."
From Time Magazine Archive
For a brief spell I would rule beside a man who is fit to be a king but who is a desecrator.
From Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
He fought the war of all which was old and primitive and lost in its own dreams against the alien and the desecrator.
From Duel on Syrtis by Poul William Anderson
Only for this desecrator of the royal dead that morrow never came, as was discovered afterwards.
From Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales by Henry Rider Haggard
