Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to desecrate
Participle: desecrated
Gerund: desecrating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | desecrate |
| you | desecrate |
| he;she;it | desecrates |
| we | desecrate |
| you | desecrate |
| they | desecrate |
Perfect
| I | have desecrated |
| you | have desecrated |
| he;she;it | has desecrated |
| we | have desecrated |
| you | have desecrated |
| they | have desecrated |
Past
| I | desecrated |
| you | desecrated |
| he;she;it | desecrated |
| we | desecrated |
| you | desecrated |
| they | desecrated |
Pluperfect
| I | had desecrated |
| you | had desecrated |
| he;she;it | had desecrated |
| we | had desecrated |
| you | had desecrated |
| they | had desecrated |
Future
| I | will desecrate |
| you | will desecrate |
| he;she;it | will desecrate |
| we | will desecrate |
| you | will desecrate |
| they | will desecrate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have desecrated |
| you | will have desecrated |
| he;she;it | will have desecrated |
| we | will have desecrated |
| you | will have desecrated |
| they | will have desecrated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | desecrate |
| you | desecrate |
| he;she;it | desecrate |
| we | desecrate |
| you | desecrate |
| they | desecrate |
Perfect
| I | have desecrated |
| you | have desecrated |
| he;she;it | have desecrated |
| we | have desecrated |
| you | have desecrated |
| they | have desecrated |
Imperfect
| I | desecrated |
| you | desecrated |
| he;she;it | desecrated |
| we | desecrated |
| you | desecrated |
| they | desecrated |
Pluperfect
| I | had desecrated |
| you | had desecrated |
| he;she;it | had desecrated |
| we | had desecrated |
| you | had desecrated |
| they | had desecrated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would desecrate |
| you | would desecrate |
| he;she;it | would desecrate |
| we | would desecrate |
| you | would desecrate |
| they | would desecrate |
Perfect
| I | would have desecrated |
| you | would have desecrated |
| he;she;it | would have desecrated |
| we | would have desecrated |
| you | would have desecrated |
| they | would have desecrated |
Imperative
| you | desecrate |
| we | Let's desecrate |
| you | desecrate |
Verbs conjugated like 'desecrate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'desecrate'
desecate,
deaerate,
dedecorate,
defecate,
dejerate,
delectate,
desiccate,
despeciate,
execrate,
obsecrate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1674, formed from de- "do the opposite of" + (con)secrate. O.Fr. had dessacrer "to profane," and there is a similar formation in It.; but L. desecrare meant "to make holy," with de- in this case having a completive sense.
2. From de- + stem of consecrate.
Sample Sentences
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It's reform -- reform! You're going to 'turn over a new leaf,' and all that, and sign the pledge, and quit cigars, and go to work, and pay your debts, and gravitate back into Sunday-school, where you can make love to the preacher's daughter under the guise of religion, and desecrate the sanctity of the innermost pale of the church by confessions at Class of your 'thorough conversion'! [1916, James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, volume 10:]
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Tonight nothing is too sacred, we desecrate and live in sin [1984, Quorthon, “Necromansy”:]
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A subsequent owner has desecrated the main hall and robbed it of its grandeur by putting in a floor just beneath the circular windows in order to make an upper room over the hall. [1913, William Alexander Lambeth, Warren H. Manning, Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.:]
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Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]