desecrate
verb (used with object)
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
have desecrated
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present perfectof desecrate.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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The Post’s Joshua Partlow reported Thursday that treasure hunters, vacationers, off-roaders and others have desecrated the area, which is rich in archaeological, scientific and natural wonders.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2021
Karzai’s press office urged the U.S. military in a statement to apply “the most severe punishment” if Marines are found to have desecrated bodies.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 13, 2012
Among them: >Limit autos in parks, because they "can destroy our National Park heritage just as surely as they have desecrated much of our urban countryside."
From Time Magazine Archive
Father understood that it would have desecrated her vision of the heroic had he played the mouth-organ for pay; perceived that she didn’t even want him to chop wood.
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis
Who could have desecrated this solemn, holy harmony of nature?
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
