DESECRATED Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

desecrated

verb

past tense of desecrate

as in violated

to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect vandals desecrated the cemetery last night by covering the tombstones with graffiti

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Recent Examples of desecrated The measure adds new grounds to Argentina’s immigration law, allowing authorities to bar, deport and revoke visas of people found to have promoted hatred against Argentines in spoken or written statements or who have desecrated national symbols. — Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 Those are the kinds of things that can't be broken into or taken away or desecrated. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026 The mission also alleges that evidence was planted and bodies were desecrated. — Patrick Peralta, The Conversation, 28 May 2026 Javien Wright, the man whose grave was desecrated, was, with a gun by his side, shot to death outside a house in the 1500 block of East Mulkey Street in February 2020. — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2026 More synagogues in Canada in the past 28 months have been desecrated, burned, shot at, or threatened with bombings than in any other country. — Jesse Brown, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026 Officials determined that a total of 26 underground vaults and mausoleums were broken into or desecrated from November 2025 until the day Gerlach was caught. — Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026 In 1993, White Supremacists in Billings desecrated a Jewish cemetery, sent bomb threats to a synagogue and threw a brick at a menorah in the window of a five-year-old Jewish boy. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025 Never in the storied history of MomTok have the core brand values been this desecrated. — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025

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The core of the Teamsters’ petition against the DMV is the claim that regulators violated the California Administrative Procedure Act by failing to complete an extensive study of the economic and practical impact of the policy change.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Meta also lost a separate social-media case brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, after a court found that the company violated the state's child-safety laws and ordered it to pay over $900 million in penalties.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026

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