desecrate
/ˈdɛsɪkreɪt/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈdɛsɪkreɪt/
desecrate
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
de - sec - rate -> desecrate
Myanmar meaning
(v) အထွတ်အမြတ်ထားသော အရာဝတ္ထု၊ နေရာတို့ကို မလေးမစား၊ မတော်မလျော်ပြုသည်။
Full entry
အထွတ်အမြတ်ထားသော အရာဝတ္ထု၊ နေရာတို့ကို မလေးမစား၊ မတော်မလျော်ပြုသည်။
desecrate a grave/church/temple.
desecration /desÇ'kreÇʃn/ n [U]: desecration of a holy shrine ❍ (fig ) I deplore the desecration of our countryside by new roads.
More examples
- desecrate /'desÇkreÇt/ v အထွတ်အမြတ်ထားသော အရာဝတ္ထု၊ နေရာတို့ကို မလေးမစား၊ မတော်မလျော်ပြုသည်။ desecrate a grave/church/temple. desecration /desÇ'kreÇʃn/ n [U] : desecration of a holy shrine
- ( fig ) I deplore the desecration of our countryside by new roads.
Synonyms
damage, vandalize, defile, despoil, violate, lay waste to, abuse, befoul, blaspheme, bring to ruin, clean out, commit sacrilege, commit sacrilege against, contaminate, depredate, desolate, devastate, devour, dilapidate, dishonor, insult, lay waste, make a mess of, make lose face, mess up, outrage, pervert, pillage, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, ruination, sack, spoil, spoilate, spoliate, use up, waste, wreak havoc on, wrecker
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