desecrate

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• /ˈdɛs.ɪ.kɹeɪ̯t/
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From de- + stem of consecrate.

82 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Amharic: አረከሰ (ʾäräkäsä) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Armenian: պղծել (pġcel) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Armenian: սրբապղծել (srbapġcel) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Bulgarian: оскверня́вам (oskvernjávam) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Catalan: profanar — to profane or violate sacredness
• Chinese Mandarin: 褻瀆 /亵渎 (xièdú) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Chinese Mandarin: 污辱 (wūrǔ) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Czech: znesvětit — to profane or violate sacredness
• Danish: vanhellige — to profane or violate sacredness
• Dutch: ontwijden — to profane or violate sacredness
• Finnish: häpäistä — to profane or violate sacredness
• French: profaner — to profane or violate sacredness
• French: désacraliser — to profane or violate sacredness
• German: entheiligen — to profane or violate sacredness
• German: schänden — to profane or violate sacredness
• German: entweihen — to profane or violate sacredness
• Greek: βεβηλώνω (vevilóno) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Hebrew: חילל \ חִלֵּל (khilél) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Hungarian: megszentségtelenít — to profane or violate sacredness
• Icelandic: vanhelga — to profane or violate sacredness
• Igbo: mebie — to profane or violate sacredness
• Indonesian: menodai — to profane or violate sacredness
• Irish: truailligh — to profane or violate sacredness
• Italian: profanare — to profane or violate sacredness
• Italian: dissacrare — to profane or violate sacredness
• Japanese: 冒涜する (bōtoku suru) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Japanese: 冒す (okasu) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Japanese: 神聖を汚す — to profane or violate sacredness
• Korean: 훼손하다 (hwesonhada) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Korean: 더럽히다 (deoreophida) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Macedonian: оскр́нави (oskŕnavi) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Māori: whakapoke — to profane or violate sacredness
• Māori: hāparu — to profane or violate sacredness
• Middle English: polluten — to profane or violate sacredness
• Norwegian Bokmål: vanhellige — to profane or violate sacredness
• Norwegian Bokmål: skjende — to profane or violate sacredness
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vanhelge — to profane or violate sacredness
• Polish: bezcześcić — to profane or violate sacredness
• Polish: zbezcześcić — to profane or violate sacredness
• Polish: profanować — to profane or violate sacredness
• Polish: sprofanować — to profane or violate sacredness
• Portuguese: profanar — to profane or violate sacredness
• Romanian: profana — to profane or violate sacredness
• Romanian: pângări — to profane or violate sacredness
• Romanian: spurca — to profane or violate sacredness
• Russian: оскверня́ть (oskvernjátʹ) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Russian: оскверни́ть (oskvernítʹ) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Russian: надруга́ться (nadrugátʹsja) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-choisrig — to profane or violate sacredness
• Serbo-Croatian: oskrnaviti — to profane or violate sacredness
• Spanish: profanar — to profane or violate sacredness
• Spanish: desecrar — to profane or violate sacredness
• Swahili: -najisi — to profane or violate sacredness
• Swedish: skända — to profane or violate sacredness
• Swedish: vanhelga — to profane or violate sacredness
• Yiddish: מחלל זײַן (mekhalel zayn) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Yiddish: שענדן (shendn) — to profane or violate sacredness
• Yiddish: פֿאַרשוועכן (farshvekhn) — to profane or violate sacredness
• French: désécrer — to remove the consecration
• Italian: sconsacrare — to remove the consecration
• Māori: hāparu — to remove the consecration
• Māori: whakanoa — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Bokmål: krenke — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Bokmål: nedverdige — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Bokmål: vanhellige — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Bokmål: vanære — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krenkje — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Nynorsk: nedverdige — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vanhelge — to remove the consecration
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vanære — to remove the consecration
• Polish: zeświecczyć — to remove the consecration
• Portuguese: desconsagrar — to remove the consecration
• Portuguese: profanar — to remove the consecration
• Romanian: desacraliza — to remove the consecration
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-choisrig — to remove the consecration
• French: désacraliser — to inappropriately change
• French: profaner — to inappropriately change
• Italian: dissacrare — to inappropriately change
• Norwegian Bokmål: krenke — to inappropriately change
• Norwegian Nynorsk: krenkje — to inappropriately change
• Polish: zeszpecić — to inappropriately change
• Romanian: profana — to inappropriately change