Both Uses
desecrate
in
The Book Thief
(Edited)
- The desecrated pages of Mein Kampf were becoming a series of sketches, page after page, which to him summed up the events that had swapped his former life for another.
p. 277.9 *desecrated = treated disrespectfully
- Papa's fingers desecrated the accordion, murdering song after song, no matter how hard he tried.
p. 516.7desecrated = violated (treated without proper respect)
Definitions:
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(1)
(desecrate) violate the sacred nature of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)