Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To violate the holiness of; profane or desecrate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To profane; desecrate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To profane; to desecrate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To profane; to desecrate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the consecration from a person or an object

Etymologies

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un- +‎ hallow

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