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"word": "exaugurate"
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"ref": "1916, James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, volume 10",
"text": "It's reform -- reform! You're going to 'turn over a new leaf,' and all that, and sign the pledge, and quit cigars, and go to work, and pay your debts, and gravitate back into Sunday-school, where you can make love to the preacher's daughter under the guise of religion, and desecrate the sanctity of the innermost pale of the church by confessions at Class of your 'thorough conversion'!",
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{
"ref": "1984, Quorthon (lyrics and music), “Necromansy”",
"text": "Tonight nothing is too sacred, we desecrate and live in sin",
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}
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"(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something."
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "պղծել"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "սրբապղծել"
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"roman": "oskvernjávam",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "褻瀆"
},
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "亵渎"
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"roman": "wūrǔ",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "污辱"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "vanhellige"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "ontwijden"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "häpäistä"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "entheiligen"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "schänden"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "entweihen"
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"roman": "vevilóno",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"word": "חילל \\ חִלֵּל"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "megszentségtelenít"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "vanhelga"
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"lang": "Igbo",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "mebie"
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "truailligh"
},
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "profanare"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "dissacrare"
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"alt": "ぼうとくする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "bōtoku suru",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "冒涜する"
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"alt": "おかす",
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"roman": "okasu",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "冒す"
},
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "神聖を汚す"
},
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "hwesonhada",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "훼손하다"
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"roman": "deoreophida",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "더럽히다"
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"roman": "oskŕnavi",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "оскр́нави"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "whakapoke"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "hāparu"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "polluten"
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "vanhellige"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"word": "bezcześcić"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"word": "profanować"
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "profanar"
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "profana"
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "pângări"
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "spurca"
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oskvernjátʹ",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"tags": [
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"word": "оскверня́ть"
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"roman": "oskvernítʹ",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "оскверни́ть"
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
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"roman": "nadrugátʹsja",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
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"word": "надруга́ться"
},
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"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "mì-choisrig"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "profanar"
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"tags": [
"rare"
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"word": "desecrar"
},
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"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "-najisi"
},
{
"_dis1": "86 9 5",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "skända"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "vanhelga"
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"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "mekhalel zayn",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "מחלל זײַן"
},
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"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "shendn",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "שענדן"
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"roman": "farshvekhn",
"sense": "to profane or violate sacredness",
"word": "פֿאַרשוועכן"
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"To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate."
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"(transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate."
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"sense": "to remove the consecration",
"word": "désécrer"
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"sense": "to remove the consecration",
"word": "sconsacrare"
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{
"_dis1": "4 95 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to remove the consecration",
"word": "hāparu"
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"word": "krenke"
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"word": "vanhellige"
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"_dis1": "4 95 1",
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"sense": "to remove the consecration",
"word": "desconsagrar"
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"_dis1": "4 95 1",
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"sense": "to remove the consecration",
"word": "profanar"
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"sense": "to remove the consecration",
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"ref": "1913, William Alexander Lambeth, Warren H. Manning, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.",
"text": "A subsequent owner has desecrated the main hall and robbed it of its grandeur by putting in a floor just beneath the circular windows in order to make an upper room over the hall.",
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"To change in an inappropriate and destructive manner."
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"sense": "to inappropriately change",
"word": "dissacrare"
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"sense": "to inappropriately change",
"word": "krenke"
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"sense": "to inappropriately change",
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"_dis1": "18 17 64",
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"sense": "to inappropriately change",
"tags": [
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"word": "zeszpecić"
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"_dis1": "18 17 64",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to inappropriately change",
"word": "profana"
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