desecrate in the PONS Dictionary

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Told that the local cemetery has been desecrated, the two then head out to see what's happened.
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He can't be desecrated by the likes of these things.
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A descendant of the traditional landowners argued that construction desecrated an ancient burial ground, disturbing skeletons in the construction of turbine number four.
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This cemetery plot was eventually desecrated by mining equipment, an act that he stood by to witness in the early 2000s.
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In some cases, even the graves of their ancestors were desecrated.
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The clergy were publicly vilified and humiliated, their vestments taken and desecrated.
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We shall repair the cross again and again, no matter how often it is desecrated.
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They might also be sent by some malicious shaman enraged by breaking some taboo, like stepping on a yurt's threshold, desecrating waters or mountains, etc.
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The tombs of the nobles who were buried in the monastery were desecrated and plundered; little remains of them.
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No one else will continue as rumors of a curse on those who desecrate the tomb fly through the region.
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