Usually means: Remove the sacred status from.
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  1. desacralize: Merriam-Webster
  2. desacralize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desacralize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desacralize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desacralize: Vocabulary.com
  6. desacralize: Wiktionary
  7. desacralize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. desacralize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. desacralize: Dictionary.com
  10. desacralize: FreeDictionary.org
  11. desacralize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. desacralize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (religion, transitive) To remove the sacredness of.

Similar:
desanctify, desecularize, disconsecrate, deconsecrate, unconsecrate, desecrate, dereligionize, unsanctify, despiritualize, deconfessionalize, more...

Opposite:
sacralize, consecrate, hallow, bless

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Similar:
desanctify, desecularize, disconsecrate, deconsecrate, unconsecrate, desecrate, dereligionize, unsanctify, despiritualize, deconfessionalize, more...

Opposite:
sacralize, consecrate, hallow, bless



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