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To take something holy and treat it like a parking lot.
means To violate the sanctity of something sacred, treating the revered with deliberate, often vandalous, contempt.
from Latin de- (reverse) plus sacrare (to make holy) — literally the un-blessing button, coined in the 1600s as the precise opposite of consecrate.
Mirror wordExact reverse of consecrate, prefix and all.
Not just churchesGraves, flags, and memories can all be desecrated.
Legal weightMany countries criminalize desecrating graves and corpses.