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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
desecrate .
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Examples
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She says the inclusion of the cult leader's name "desecrates the memory of the victims."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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For let's face the ugly fact: What does it mean, really, to assert that a mosque at Ground Zero "desecrates" hallowed ground?
Carla Seaquist: A Mosque at Ground Zero: Desperately Seeking George Washington's Wisdom 2010
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If anyone "desecrates" the memory of those who died it is a person who does not fearlessly want the complete truth investigated.
Tom Matzzie: Memo to Right-Wing Donors -- This is Who You're Getting in Bed With 2008
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An investment banker desecrates the memory of the Holocaust's victims by saying that ir would be like Hitler invading Poland if he were asked to pay the same tax rate as a cop or a firefighter.
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The phrase "Polish concentration camp" desecrates their memory.
Alex Storozynski: The media's slander of Poland: Ignorance, lazy editing, or malicious libel? Alex Storozynski 2010
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Their objection is that playing as the Taliban in a video game desecrates the memory of their children.
Doug Lieblich: Let Go of My Controller: The Maternalistic Attitude to Video Games Doug Lieblich 2010
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Their objection is that playing as the Taliban in a video game desecrates the memory of their children.
Doug Lieblich: Let Go of My Controller: The Maternalistic Attitude to Video Games Doug Lieblich 2010
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An investment banker desecrates the memory of the Holocaust's victims by saying that ir would be like Hitler invading Poland if he were asked to pay the same tax rate as a cop or a firefighter.
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The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, which represents about 80,000 families, said Iott's "failure to apologize is particularly shameful and desecrates the memory of all victims of the Nazis, Jew and non-Jew."
Democrats criticize GOP over House nominee who dressed as Nazi during battle reenactments Felicia Sonmez 2010
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Apparently, unlike me, he has no fear of what will come out, no apprehension that the first draft will not resemble prose as much as vandalism that desecrates the blank space with incoherent ramblings.
Story pick: Coughing up copy, one hairball at a time Christian Davenport 2011
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