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desecrate
Overview of verb desecrate
The verb desecrate has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) desecrate, profane, outrage, violate -- (violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God")
2. desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate -- (remove the consecration from a person or an object)
Antonyms of verb desecrate
1 of 2 senses of desecrate
Sense 2
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
Antonym of consecrate (Sense 4)
=>consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb desecrate
2 senses of desecrate
Sense 1
desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
=> assail, assault, set on, attack
Sense 2
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb desecrate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb desecrate
2 senses of desecrate
Sense 1
desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
=> assail, assault, set on, attack
Sense 2
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
'Cause To' of verb desecrate
Derived Forms of verb desecrate
1 of 2 senses of desecrate
Sense 1
desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
RELATED TO>(noun) desecration#1
=> profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege
Domain of verb desecrate
Domain Terms of verb desecrate
Familiarity of verb desecrate
desecrate used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb desecrate
2 senses of desecrate
Sense 1
desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb desecrate
2 senses of desecrate
Sense 1
desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
> assail, assault, set on, attack
=> bait
=> sic, set
=> bulldog
=> rush
=> blindside
=> savage
=> reassail
=> jump
=> beset, set upon
=> rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage
=> desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
=> molest
Sense 2
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> interchange, tack, switch, alternate, flip, flip-flop
=> turn the tables, turn the tide
=> commutate
=> switch over, switch, exchange
=> correct, rectify, right
=> falsify
=> permute, commute, transpose
=> metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify
=> revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back
=> desynchronize, desynchronise
=> desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
=> undo
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb desecrate
Sense 1
desecrate, profane, outrage, violate
=> assail, assault, set on, attack
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Sense 2
desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
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Grep of verb desecrate
desecrate
Grep of adj desecrate
desecrated
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