To violate (laws, holy places, etc.); to break the sanctity of, profane, pollute.

transitive. To treat (something sacred) with irreverence, disrespect, or contempt; to desecrate.

To desecrate. Obsolete. rare.

To violate the sacredness or sanctity of; to desecrate, profane.

transitive. To deprive of a holy or sacred character; to profane. (Common 1575–1660.)

transitive. To profane.

Occasionally used by way of antithesis to consecrate: To make unholy. Obsolete.

transitive. = profane, v. 1a.

transitive. To commit sacrilege upon.

transitive. To render unconsecrated; to desecrate or profane.

transitive. To cancel the inauguration of; to unhallow, make profane.

transitive. To strip of leaves; = defoliate, v.

transitive. To undo the hallowing of; to destroy or violate the sacredness of; to profane.

transitive. To take away its consecrated or sacred character from (anything); to treat as not sacred or hallowed; to profane.

transitive. To deprive of hallowed character.

transitive. To make profane (in various senses); = profane, v. 1a.