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profaningverbpresent participle of profane to lower in character, dignity, or qualitythe once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories abasing, bastardizing, cankering, cheapening, corrupting, debasing, debauching, degrading, demeaning, demoralizing, depraving, deteriorating, lessening, perverting, poisoning, prostituting, subverting, vitiating, warping befouling, begriming, contaminating, defiling, diluting, dirtying, polluting, tainting, thinning, watering down, weakeningdescendingdisgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, shaming, taking downblemishing, damaging, defacing, destroying, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, ruining, spoiling, staining, tarnishing, wreckingdepreciating, downgrading elevating, ennobling, uplifting dignifying, exalting, honoringameliorating, amending, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfectingclarifying, cleaning, cleansing, purifying, refining, restoringrespecting to put to a bad or improper useprofaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies abusing, misapplying, misemploying, misusing, perverting, prostituting degrading, twistingmismanagingcorrupting, debasing, desecrating applying, employing, using, utilizingrespecting to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespectinvading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it defiling, desecrating, violating deconsecrating, desacralizing, desanctifyingblaspheming, cursing, swearingbefouling, contaminating, fouling, poisoning, polluting, soiling, sullying, taintingaffronting, defaming, insulting, offending, outragingannihilating, crushing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, ravaging, razing, ruining, wasting, wreckingdespoiling, looting, pillaging, plundering, raiding, ransacking, robbing, sacking, spoiling, stripping blessing, consecrating, dedicating, hallowing, sanctifyinghonoring, respectingcleansing, purging, purifying |