Thesaurus / desecrate
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By testing them for drugs, police “desecrated” Ta’Naja’s ashes, Barnes said in the lawsuit filed against the city of Springfield and six Springfield police officers.
POLICE TOLD A MAN A CONTAINER IN HIS CAR TESTED POSITIVE FOR DRUGS. IT WAS HIS DAUGHTER’S ASHES.ANDREA SALCEDOMAY 21, 2021WASHINGTON POSTJohn Walker, when surrounded by people filming his deeds, makes a very different choice and—this cannot be emphasized enough—desecrates the symbolism of the shield by decapitating an innocent man with it.
ALL YOUR FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER FINALE QUESTIONS, ANSWEREDELIANA DOCKTERMANAPRIL 23, 2021TIMEThey took selfies as they smashed windows and doors, desecrated sacred objects and paraded through the Capitol rotunda.
MY FATHER WROTE 'STRANGE FRUIT.' THE CAPITOL RIOTERS HAD A LOT IN COMMON WITH THE LYNCH MOBS THAT INSPIRED THAT SONGROBERT MEEROPOLMARCH 5, 2021TIMEScientists suspect the mud wrap may have been used to restore the body’s shape after it was desecrated, potentially by tomb robbers.
UNUSUAL MUD SHELL COVERS AN EGYPTIAN MUMMYMARIA TEMMINGFEBRUARY 26, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSLeg fractures and other damage to the mummy’s body hint that the mud wrap may have been used to restore the body after it was desecrated, potentially by tomb robbers.
AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MUMMY WAS WRAPPED IN AN UNUSUAL MUD SHELLMARIA TEMMINGFEBRUARY 3, 2021SCIENCE NEWSIt was no human remains that he was commanded to desecrate; the bones referred to were those of Mother Earth.
STORIES OF OLD GREECE AND ROMEEMILIE KIP BAKERDo not neglect it; do not misuse it; before all things do not defile and desecrate it.
SERMONSJ. B. LIGHTFOOTThey used to have to stop miles away, as no engine was allowed to desecrate the holy city of Pekin.
EMPIRES AND EMPERORS OF RUSSIA, CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPANPTER VAYYou desecrate our sacred memories when you allow small suspicions and fears to enter your thoughts of me.
TANTEANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICKProceeding straight up to the high altar, he bent his knee before the God whose name he was now so soon to desecrate.
THE SWEDISH REVOLUTION UNDER GUSTAVUS VASAPAUL BARRON WATSONWORDS RELATED TO DESECRATE
- annihilate
- break up
- capture
- consume
- cream
- crush
- damage
- demolish
- desecrate
- desolate
- despoil
- devastate
- dismantle
- disorganize
- disrupt
- exterminate
- extinguish
- forage
- foray
- gut
- harry
- impair
- lay waste
- leave in ruins
- loot
- overrun
- overthrow
- overwhelm
- pillage
- pirate
- plunder
- prey
- prostrate
- pull down
- raid
- rape
- raze
- rob
- ruin
- sack
- seize
- shatter
- sink
- smash
- spoil
- spoliate
- stamp out
- strip
- sweep away
- total
- trample
- trash
- waste
- wreak havoc
- wreck
- wrest
- bankrupt
- beggar
- botch
- break
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- bust
- clean out
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- devour
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- do in
- drain
- exhaust
- fleece
- impoverish
- injure
- lay waste
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pauperize
- pillage
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- sack
- shatter
- smash
- spoil
- spoliate
- total
- use up
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
- bane
- bankrupt
- beggar
- botch
- break
- bust
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- destroyer
- destruction
- devour
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- do in
- downfall
- drain
- exhaust
- fleece
- impoverish
- injure
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pauperize
- pillage
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- sack
- shatter
- smash
- spoil
- total
- undoing
- use up
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreck
- wrecker
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