desecrate
verb- desecrate something
to damage a holy thing or place or treat it without respect 亵渎(圣物或圣地) desecrated graves 被亵渎的坟墓 - (figurative)
ruinous new road schemes that desecrate the countryside 亵渎乡村的毁灭性的新道路计划
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDesecrate is used with these nouns as the object:- grave
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from de- (expressing reversal) + a shortened form of consecrate.