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Profane V Violate Desecrate Treat Unworthily Members Mysterious

Word profane
Part of Speech V.
Definition violate; desecrate; treat unworthily.
Sentence The members of the mysterious Far Eastern cult sought to kill the British explorer because he had profaned the sanctity of their holy goblet by using it as an ashtray.
Related Words also ADJ.

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