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to make or declare sacred 신성하게 하거나 신성함을 공표하다

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