desecrate
verb🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪt/
🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they desecrate | 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪt/ 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪt/ |
| he / she / it desecrates | 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪts/ 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪts/ |
| past simple desecrated | 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle desecrated | 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form desecrating | 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈdesɪkreɪtɪŋ/ |
- desecrate something
to damage a holy thing or place or treat it without respect 亵渎（圣物或圣地） desecrated graves 被亵渎的坟墓 - (figurative)
ruinous new road schemes that desecrate the countryside 亵渎乡村的毁灭性新道路计划
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDesecrate is used with these nouns as the object:- grave
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from de- (expressing reversal) + a shortened form of consecrate.