MEANING
To remove or formally end the sacred status or dedication of a place or object.
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Words that belong together
- deconsecrate a church
- a deconsecrated building
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The church was deconsecrated before the records were moved.
They could deconsecrate the building, but the villagers continued to avoid its eastern door.
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Word forms
- Base
- deconsecrate
- Past tense
- deconsecrated
- Past participle
- deconsecrated
- Present participle
- deconsecrating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deconsecrate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deconsecrating
- Present perfect
- have/has deconsecrated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deconsecrating
- Past
- deconsecrated
- Past continuous
- was/were deconsecrating
- Past perfect
- had deconsecrated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deconsecrating
- Future
- will deconsecrate
- Future continuous
- will be deconsecrating
- Future perfect
- will have deconsecrated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deconsecrating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: deconsecrate; deconsecrates; deconsecrated; deconsecrated; deconsecrating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: deconsecrates.
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