desecrated's Usage Examples:

instructed that his grave be opened and desecrated with every mark of indignity.

So, in a letter I said I could not attend the ceremony (in a country) where my holiest sanctities are desecrated.

The church was closed and desecrated under the Bolshevik rule.

violent unrest in 2004, more than 35 Serbian Orthodox church buildings were desecrated, damaged or destroyed.

In the same month, several idols of Hindu gods in two temples in Madaripur Sadar Upazila which were under construction were desecrated by miscreants.

1870) was an Italian soldier turned treasure hunter, who robbed and desecrated the pyramids of Meroë.

Enraged, Empress Lü sent men to Zhao Tuo's hometown of Zhending (modern Zhengding County in Hebei Province) who killed much of Zhao's extended family and desecrated the ancestral graveyard there.

The graves of the desecrated cemetery of Monticello were relocated to Spanish Flat before the town.

The Rudra Mahalaya Temple, also known as Rudramal, is a destroyed/desecrated temple complex at Siddhpur in the Patan district of Gujarat, India.

At St Michael's, the Host was desecrated, and the pyx and ciborium carried away.

During the 1938 November pogrom it was desecrated by the Nazis and then fell until ruin.

Lalibela; the other in the land of Qoqhena, which was given a tabot from a desecrated church dedicated to Istifanos.

Synonyms:

deconsecrated, profaned, violated,

Antonyms:

consecrate, votive, sacred, consecrated,