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| Main Entry: |
desecration
 [des-i-kreyt] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, abuse |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, debasement, defilement, impiety, irreverence, profanation, sacrilege |
| Antonyms: | honor, praise, sanctification |
| Main Entry: | blasphemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | abuse, cursing, cussing, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, impiousness, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanation, profaneness, profanity, reviling, sacrilege, scoffing, scurrility, swearing, vituperation |
| Antonyms: | godliness, piety, religion, religiousness, reverence |
| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, pillage, plunder, ransacking, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sacking, spoliation, stealing, theft, wasting |
| Antonyms: | boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
Example Sentences
- And yet it is so appropriate to the content and mood of the film that to change it would be a desecration.
- It was his first court offense: desecration of a synagogue.
- Share your thoughts on the line between desecration and archaeological excavation.
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
| Synonyms: | abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulteration, besmearing, besmirching, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, impurity, infection, misuse, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, taint, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
| Antonyms: | piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rape, defilement |
| Synonyms: | assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, defacing, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, mistreatment, outrage, pollution, profanation, rapine, ravishment, ruin, sacrilege, spoliation |
| Main Entry: | misapplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misappropriation, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
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