to violate or outrage the sacred character of (an object or place) by destructive, blasphemous, or sacrilegious action
2.
to remove the consecration from (a person, object, building, etc); deconsecrate
unhallow in American English
(ʌnˈhæloʊ)
verb transitive
to desecrate; profane
unhallow in American English
(unˈhælou)
transitive verb
to desecrate; profane
Word origin
[1525–35; un-2 + hallow1]This word is first recorded in the period 1525–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: folio, mask, retire, secure, societyun- is a prefix freely used in English to form verbs expressing a reversal of some actionor state, or removal, deprivation, release, etc. (unbend; uncork; unfasten; etc.), or to intensify the force of a verb already having such a meaning (unloose)