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  • 61defile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. dirty, [befoul, tarnish, blacken; corrupt, debauch, contaminate; dishonor, debase, sully, drag in the dust, give a bad name. See uncleanness, impurity, disrepute. n. ravine, gorge, passage. See… …

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  • 62pollute — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. contaminate, foul, desecrate, taint, soil, defile, corrupt; demoralize. See impurity, deterioration, uncleanness.Ant., clean (up). II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. contaminate, dirty, befoul, defile; see… …

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  • 63Misuse — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Misuse >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 misuse misuse misusage misemployment misapplication misappropriation GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 abuse abuse profanation prostitution desecration Sgm: N 2 waste …

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  • 64desecration — 1717, noun of action from DESECRATE (Cf. desecrate) …

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  • 65profane — pro·fane || prÉ™ feɪn v. desecrate what is sacred, blaspheme; defile, contaminate, make impure adj. secular, not consecrated; agnostic, heretical; vulgar; unholy, not sacred; serving to desecrate what is sacred, blasphemous …

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  • 66profaned — pro·fane || prÉ™ feɪn v. desecrate what is sacred, blaspheme; defile, contaminate, make impure adj. secular, not consecrated; agnostic, heretical; vulgar; unholy, not sacred; serving to desecrate what is sacred, blasphemous …

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  • 67profanes — pro·fane || prÉ™ feɪn v. desecrate what is sacred, blaspheme; defile, contaminate, make impure adj. secular, not consecrated; agnostic, heretical; vulgar; unholy, not sacred; serving to desecrate what is sacred, blasphemous …

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  • 68profaning — pro·fane || prÉ™ feɪn v. desecrate what is sacred, blaspheme; defile, contaminate, make impure adj. secular, not consecrated; agnostic, heretical; vulgar; unholy, not sacred; serving to desecrate what is sacred, blasphemous …

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  • 69unhallow — verb remove the consecration from a person or an object • Syn: ↑desecrate, ↑deconsecrate • Ant: ↑consecrate (for: ↑desecrate) • Hypernyms: ↑change by reversa …

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  • 70ERUVIN — (Heb. עֵרוּבִין), the second tractate of the order Mo ed in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and in both the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals with all aspects of the Sabbath eruv: eruv of Sabbath boundaries, the eruv of courtyards, and the eruv of …

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