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DECONSECRATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deconsecrate mean?
• DECONSECRATE (verb)
The verb DECONSECRATE has 1 sense:
1. remove the consecration from a person or an object
Familiarity information: DECONSECRATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the consecration from a person or an object
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
deconsecrate; desecrate; unhallow
Hypernyms (to "deconsecrate" is one way to...):
change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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