Need another word that means the same as “desecrate”? Find 21 synonyms and 30 related words for “desecrate” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Desecrate” are: deconsecrate, unhallow, outrage, profane, violate, treat sacrilegiously, treat with disrespect, harm, do damage to, injure, mar, deface, mutilate, mangle, impair, blemish, disfigure, vandalize, blight, spoil, defile
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “desecrate” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| blemish | Add a flaw or blemish to make imperfect or defective. His reign as world champion has been blemished by controversy. |
| blight | Infect plants with blight. The scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians. |
| deconsecrate | Transfer (a building) from sacred to secular use. The church was deconsecrated in the early nineteenth century. |
| deface | Mar or spoil the appearance of. Scars defaced her cheeks. |
| defile | Rape or sexually assault (a woman. He took her behind the building and defiled her. |
| disfigure | Spoil the appearance of. The vandals disfigured the statue. |
| do damage to | Arrange attractively. |
| harm | Cause or do harm to. Smoking when pregnant can harm your baby. |
| impair | Make imperfect. A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing. |
| injure | Hurt the feelings of. The explosion injured several people. |
| mangle | Press with a mangle. Mangle the sheets. |
| mar | Impair the quality or appearance of; spoil. Violence marred a number of New Year celebrations. |
| mutilate | Alter so as to make unrecognizable. Most of the prisoners had been mutilated. |
| outrage | Arouse fierce anger, shock, or indignation in (someone. The public were outraged at the brutality involved. |
| profane | Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. It was a serious matter to profane a tomb. |
| spoil | Be extremely or aggressively eager for. Breakfast in bed you re spoiling me. |
| treat sacrilegiously | Provide with choice or abundant food or drink. |
| treat with disrespect | Provide treatment for. |
| unhallow | Remove the consecration from a person or an object. |
| vandalize | Destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism. Vandalize the park. |
| violate | Violate the sacred character of a place or language. They denied that human rights were being violated. |
| belongings | A person’s movable possessions. She didn t have much baggage with her as most of her belongings had been sent ahead by sea. |
| buccaneer | Live like a buccaneer. The marauding buccaneers who used to terrorize the Mediterranean coasts. |
| criminal | Guilty of crime or serious offense. A criminal offense. |
| depredation | An act of attacking or plundering. Protecting grain from the depredations of rats and mice. |
| deprive | Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining. The Archbishop deprived a considerable number of puritan clergymen. |
| dig | An act or spell of digging. A thorough dig of the whole plot. |
| disinter | Discover (something that is well hidden. His corpse was disinterred and dumped in a pit. |
| dispossess | Deprive (someone) of land, property, or other possessions. They were dispossessed of lands and properties during the Reformation. |
| dispossession | The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law. Reparation for the victims of land dispossession. |
| exhume | Dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground. The bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge. |
| filch | Make off with belongings of others. They filched milk off morning doorsteps. |
| flay | Strip the skin off. She flayed the white skin from the flesh. |
| forensic | A laboratory or department responsible for forensic tests. Forensic ballistics. |
| investigator | A person who carries out a formal inquiry or investigation. Investigators found no signs of forced entry. |
| loot | Steal goods; take as spoils. Ten thousand quid is a lot of loot. |
| pillage | Steal (something) using violence, especially in wartime. Artworks pillaged from churches and museums. |
| piracy | A practice similar to piracy but in other contexts especially hijacking. Air piracy. |
| plunder | Plunder a town after capture. The army sacked the city and carried off huge quantities of plunder. |
| prize | Having been or likely to be awarded a prize in a competition. The star prize in the charity raffle. |
| profane | Not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular. He was an agnostic a profane man. |
| ransack | Search thoroughly. Man has ransacked the planet for fuel. |
| rapine | The act of despoiling a country in warfare. Industrial rapine. |
| researcher | A person whose job involves discovering or verifying information for use in a book, programme, etc. Radio and TV researchers. |
| rob | Deprive (an opposing player) of the ball. The burglars robbed him of all his money. |
| spoliation | The intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence. The spoliation of the Church. |
| steal | An act of stealing a base. A delicious languor was stealing over her. |
| thief | A person who steals another person’s property, especially by stealth and without using force or threat of violence. The thief stole the drugs from a doctor s surgery. |
| thieve | Be a thief; steal something. They began thieving again. |
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