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
The one solitary chair was of that cheap construction which is meant to creak warningly when sat upon by light people, and to resolve itself into match-wood when the desecrator is heavy.
From The Young Trawler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But there are limits to one’s faith, and personally I cannot imagine the desecrator of Pembroke College in the same injured town of Cambridge practising any art in a way that would please me.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Sir Francis Darwin
But he was never seen, as a matter of fact, by any man but the desecrator of his tomb.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
