desecrate
verb (used with object)
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
has desecrated
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present perfectof desecrate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A supporter of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has desecrated a beachside memorial to Covid-19 victims as the country’s coronavirus death toll rose above 40,000.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2020
Are you a man? are you a father? and think you I could stoop so low, vile as I stand here, as to make money—filthy money—of the stuff which a daughter's touch has desecrated?
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Mary Lamb
In the name of my mother, I beseech you, do not let it be here upon this open path where men may pass, and which the foot of man has desecrated.
From Mohammed Ali and His House by Mrs. Chapman Coleman
But there's a locked door in the inner chamber—a shrine that no one has desecrated.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
They defile me, for falsehood has desecrated and trodden them in the mire.
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
