desecrate
verb (used with object)
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
is desecrating
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present progressiveof desecrate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It helps that the award-winning Icelandic original was in itself no masterpiece, meaning there's little sense that anyone here is desecrating a work of art.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2012
As Richard Brody, the New Yorker critic and blogger, trenchantly tweeted: “It's not as if is desecrating Herrmann's music; rather, it's wearing it, like a kid clomping around in Dad's shoes.”
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2012
“The flag–the flag!” bawled deaf John Kollander, rising, “He is desecrating Old Glory!”
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
She will tame him down to mediocrity, never realizing what she is desecrating, what she is robbing some other better-fitted woman of.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
Familiarity without the discipline of reverence is desecrating impertinence, and reverence without the warmth of familiarity is chilling formalism.
From With God in the World A Series of Papers by Charles H. Brent
