desecrating in English

verb
1
treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect; violate.
more than 300 graves were desecrated

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1. Ahmadi Muslim employees were accused of desecrating the Quran

2. Desecrating his memorial is like defiling his corpse!

3. Would you humble the Almighty by desecrating his possessions?

4. Synonyms for Blaspheming include cursing, cussing, swearing, abusing, execrating, desecrating, profaning, reviling, anathematizing and imprecating

5. Yet he hated to think of Wheeler, who represented everything bogus and hollow,(Sentence dictionary) desecrating his beloved church.

6. On March 30, 1809 the troops of Napoleon's army destroyed what was left of the monastery, even desecrating the abbots' graves.

7. Josiah destroyed the site of idolatrous worship in Bethel, first burning the bones from nearby tombs on the altar, thereby desecrating it in fulfillment of the prophecy given by “the man of the true God” over three centuries earlier.

8. As previously reported on Syria Untold, ISIS has engaged in raising the group's black flag to replace the popular revolution flag in demonstrations, imposing sectarian slogans, desecrating Christian saints’ graves and destroying churches and cultural symbols such as the statue of poet and philosopher Abul Alaa al-Maarri, known for denouncing religious superstition and dogmatism.