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单词 desecration
释义
desecration
noun[U]
uk
/ˌdes.ɪˈkreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdes.əˈkreɪ.ʃən/
theactionofdamagingorshowingnorespecttowards somethingholyor very muchrespected:
People werehorrifiedat the desecrationofthecemetery.
Desecration ofsacredsitesandobjectswaswidespread.
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desecrate
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  • Hededicatedhimself topreventingfurtherdesecration of the Floridalandscape.
  • There are stillreportsofvandalismand desecration ofsynagogues.
  • He had beenburiedat anundisclosedlocationin thecemeterytopreventdesecration of hisgrave.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Damaging and spoiling
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  • adulterated
  • adulteration
  • alloy
  • at the expense ofsomeoneidiom
  • at-risk
  • flaw
  • foul
  • foul(something)up
  • gild the lilyidiom
  • gloss
  • gnaw
  • gnaw away atsomething
  • ravage
  • ravages
  • ruin
  • scourge
  • scuff
  • sour
  • wreck
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(Definition ofdesecrationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdesecration

desecration
This is perhaps similar to our example of a radical environmentalist who prefers wilderness preservation todesecrationto compromise development.
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Impervious to any hint ofdesecrationor betrayal, this new, conscious modelhood suggests a good deal more than mere passive availability to vision.
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To stress the obvious, to take someone's liver from their body does not in any way amount to adesecration, when done for transplant purposes.
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Even nonbelievers will say that grave desecrations affront our sense of common humanness.
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Both rural and urban committees, however, were fairly timid in making decisions, fearful of the potential fordesecrationof controversial edifices, and anxious to provide an appearance of working-class participation.
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That point might seem obvious, but this is one of those moments where the reader might have wanted more details, especially about thedesecrationof sacred sites.
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Unlike his radically paranoid father, he leaves his body and name open to all sorts of violations and desecrations in order to enact a judgment, not a curse.
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The vandalism anddesecrationof play equipment shown in photograph after photograph was soul-destroying.
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We must aim not at suppressing legitimate advertising, but at controlling it and preventing the disfigurement of city areas, and thedesecrationof the countryside.
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We are not speaking of development but of commercial exploitation or sheerdesecration.
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Does he not consider that such commercial exploitation of religion is adesecrationof it?
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They put the taxation of capital on the same footing as thedesecrationof a holy relic.
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Thedesecrationpoint has been overstated by the objectors.
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I refer particularly to the horribledesecrationof an important building in my constituency.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Surely we must devise some means not only of preventing thisdesecrationof the countryside but of turning this metal to better use.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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