All 3 Uses
desecrate
in
American Sniper
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- That spring was the period when Americans were shocked by the images of four contractors, their bodies desecrated, hanging from a bridge in Fallujah.†
p. 138.6 *desecrated = violated the sacred nature of something
- Dead ahead of me but out of view was the infamous bridge where the insurgents had desecrated the bodies of the Blackwater contractors half a year earlier.†
p. 162.1
- In the space of less than an hour, we'd shot a guy who wanted to blow us up, tried to save his life, and desecrated his body.†
p. 313.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(desecrate) violate the sacred nature of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)