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to make or declare sacred
신성하게 하거나 신성함을 공표하다
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The Veterans Day speaker said the battlefield had been consecrated by the blood of soldiers who had died there.
제향군인의 날, 연사는 그곳에서 죽은 병사들의 피로 인해 전투지는 성지가 되었다고 말했다.
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The priest consecrated the building by sprinking holy water on it.
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The college chaplain delivered a sermon at the consecration ceremony for the new chapel.
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The opposite of consecrate is desecrate, which means to treat irreverently. The vandals desecrated the cemetery by knocking down all the tombstones. Their act of vandalism was desecration.
consecrate 의 반의어는 desecrate 로 불경스럽게 다룬다는 뜻이다. 무뢰한들이 묘비들을 모두 쓰러뜨려 묘지의 신성함을 더럽혔다. 그들의 야만행위는 불경스런 짓이었다.
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Desecrate can also be applied to areas outside r디igion.
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Doodling in a book desecrates the book, even if the book isn't a Bible.
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The wife desecrated a photograph of her husband by drawing a mustache on it.
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The graffiti on the front door of the school is a desecration.
학교 현관문에 낙서를 하는 것은 학교를 모독하는 행위다.