| Main Entry: | desecration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, abuse |
Synonyms: |
blasphemy, debasement, defilement, impiety, irreverence, profanation, sacrilege |
Antonyms: |
honor, praise, sanctification |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrong use |
Synonyms: |
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misapplication, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | blasphemy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
Synonyms: |
abuse, cursing, cussing, desecration, execration, heresy, impiety, impiousness, imprecation, indignity, lewdness, profanation, profaneness, profanity, reviling, sacrilege, scoffing, scurrility, swearing, vituperation |
Antonyms: |
godliness, piety, religion, religiousness, reverence |
| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
Synonyms: |
burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, pillage, plunder, ransacking, rapine, ravaging, robbery, sacking, spoliation, stealing, theft, wasting |
Antonyms: |
boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
Synonyms: |
abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
Synonyms: |
abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
Synonyms: |
abuse, adulteration, besmearing, besmirching, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, impurity, infection, misuse, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, taint, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
Antonyms: |
cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
Synonyms: |
blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanation, profaneness, profanity, sin, violation |
Antonyms: |
piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | violation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rape, defilement |
Synonyms: |
assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, defacing, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, mistreatment, outrage, pollution, profanation, rapine, ravishment, ruin, sacrilege, spoliation |
| Main Entry: | misapplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse |
Synonyms: |
corruption, crime, debasement, delinquency, desecration, exploitation, fault, injustice, misappropriation, misconduct, misdeed, mishandling, mismanage, misuse, offense, perversion, prostitution, sin, wrong, wrongdoing |