Profaning - English meaning

Profaning – definitions in English dictionary

verb
Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect.
Usage examples:
It was a serious matter to profane a tomb
Synonims:
Desecrate Violate Defile Treat with disrespect Debase Degrade Contaminate Pollute Taint

adjective
Not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular.
Usage examples:
A talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane

adjective
(of a person or their behaviour) not respectful of religious practice; irreverent.
Usage examples:
A profane person might be tempted to violate the tomb

Profaning translation into English

Profaning: translate from English into Chinese

亵渎, 渎

Profaning: translate from English into Dutch

Ontheiligen, Ontwijden, Schenden, Profaneren, Misbruiken

Profaning: translate from English into French

Profaner

Profaning: translate from English into German

Entweihen, Entheiligen, Profanieren, Sich vergreifen an

Profaning: translate from English into Hindi

अपवित्र, अपवित्र करना, दूषित करना, बदनाम करना, अपमानित करना

Profaning: translate from English into Italian

Profanare

Profaning: translate from English into Korean

모독, ...의 신성을 더럽히다, 남용하다, 오용하다

Profaning: translate from English into Russian

Осквернение, Осквернять, Профанировать

Profaning: translate from English into Spanish

Profanando, Profanar

Word origin

late Middle English (in the sense ‘heathen’): from Old French prophane, from Latin profanus ‘outside the temple, not sacred’, from pro- (from Latin pro ‘before’) + fanum ‘temple’.

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Profaning – similar words

profanable

adjective
Liable to be profaned.

Profanable - all meanings in English

Profaning synonims

contaminate

verb
Make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
Usage examples:
The site was found to be contaminated by radioactivity

verb
To make something less pure or make it poisonous
Usage examples:
The disease can be caused by a variety of viruses, bacteria, and other small organisms that contami…

verb
To make something less pure or make it poisonous
Usage examples:
The government recently reported that 10% of farmland has been destroyed by pollution and that heav…

Contaminate - all meanings in English

debase

verb
Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade.
Usage examples:
The love episodes debase the dignity of the drama

verb
To reduce in quality or value
Usage examples:
Television is often blamed for debasing american politics.

Debase - all meanings in English

defile

verb
Damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil.
Usage examples:
The land was defiled by a previous owner

noun
A steep-sided narrow gorge or passage (originally one requiring troops to march in single file).
Usage examples:
The twisting track wormed its way up a defile to level ground

verb
(of troops) march in single file.
Usage examples:
We emerged after defiling through the mountainsides

Defile - all meanings in English

degrade

verb
Treat or regard (someone) with contempt or disrespect.
Usage examples:
She thought that many supposedly erotic pictures degraded women

verb
To reduce the quality of something
Usage examples:
Degrading water/air quality, degraded sound quality, the state is funding projects to restore degra…

verb
To become worse in quality, or to make something worse
Usage examples:
Unlike with a cassette player, the sound of the mp3 player doesn't degrade as the battery weakens.

Degrade - all meanings in English

desecrate

ˈdes.ɪ.kreɪt

verb
Treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect.
Usage examples:
More than 300 graves were desecrated

verb
To damage or show a lack of respect toward something holy or respected
Usage examples:
Vandals desecrated the monument., the desecration of a cemetery/shrine/house of worship

verb
To damage or show no respect towards something holy or very much respected
Usage examples:
The mosque/shrine was desecrated by vandals., it's a crime to desecrate the country's flag.

Desecrate - all meanings in English

pollute

verb
Contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances.
Usage examples:
The explosion polluted the town with dioxin

Contaminate; make impure

verb
To make air, water, or earth dirty or harmful to people, animals, and plants, esp. by adding harmful chemicals or waste
Usage examples:
Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are polluting the groundwater., maybe there’s some kind of chem…

Pollute - all meanings in English

taint

noun
A trace of a bad or undesirable substance or quality.
Usage examples:
The lingering taint of creosote

verb
Contaminate or pollute (something).
Usage examples:
The air was tainted by fumes from the cars

noun
The perineum.

Taint - all meanings in English

violate

verb
Break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement).
Usage examples:
They violated the terms of a ceasefire

verb
Fail to agree with; go against

verb
To break or act against something such as a law, agreement, or principle, or to not respect something that should be treated with respect
Usage examples:
The planes appear to have deliberately violated the cease-fire agreement., questions of this kind v…

Violate - all meanings in English

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