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desecrating

/des-i-kreyt/US // ˈdɛs ɪˌkreɪt //UK // (ˈdɛsɪˌkreɪt) //

亵渎,亵渎行为,亵渎神明,盗用

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    des·e·crat·ed, des·e·crat·ing.

    • : to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
    • : to divert from a sacred to a profane use or purpose.
    • : to treat with sacrilege; profane.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • John 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.

  • They took selfies as they smashed windows and doors, desecrated sacred objects and paraded through the Capitol rotunda.

  • Scientists suspect the mud wrap may have been used to restore the body’s shape after it was desecrated, potentially by tomb robbers.

  • Leg 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.

  • It was no human remains that he was commanded to desecrate; the bones referred to were those of Mother Earth.

  • Do not neglect it; do not misuse it; before all things do not defile and desecrate it.

  • They used to have to stop miles away, as no engine was allowed to desecrate the holy city of Pekin.

  • You desecrate our sacred memories when you allow small suspicions and fears to enter your thoughts of me.

  • Proceeding straight up to the high altar, he bent his knee before the God whose name he was now so soon to desecrate.