PROFANED Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

profaned

verb

past tense of profane

as in degraded

to lower in character, dignity, or quality the once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories

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as in abused

to put to a bad or improper use profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies

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as in violated

to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it

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Sometimes the caulk around a drain has degraded, allowing mold to grow and offering an inviting way for springtails to enter.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2026
The investigation found that the unpermitted excavation degraded sensitive habitats, according to a commission fact sheet.

— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of degraded

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That body, established in 2017 in response to the crimes of Larry Nassar, the Michigan physician who serially abused young gymnasts, can investigate misconduct, including nonsexual misconduct, in any Olympic sport.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Two other people claimed to have been abused by the artist during their childhood, according to Libération, but are also not included in the case headed to trial because the incidents took place too far in the past.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of abused

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Hundreds of those grants were later reinstated when a federal judge ruled that the slap-dash nature of the terminations violated the Administrative Procedures Act, which regulates how agencies are supposed to change policies.

— Anil Oza, STAT, 17 Sep. 2026
Marc Ellinger, an attorney for the two Republican lawmakers, has argued that switching congressional maps between the primary and general elections violated federal law.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of violated

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This may then seem like yet another story about how Trump has wrecked norms and corrupted the rule of law.

— James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
The difference with those films is that all those guys came in corrupted by something or had something mentally going on.

— Derek Lawrence, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of corrupted

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In April, popular Chinese actor Jackson Yee made headlines when his studio issued a public statement that his face was being misused by AI drama producers.

— Ling Wei, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
An identity theft monitoring service can add another layer by watching for signs that your personal or financial information may be misused.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of misused

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Then in January 2026, according to police, a potential family member reached out to police and said the mausoleum and grave of a relative at Riverview Cemetery were unlawfully desecrated in 2002.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026
Skeletal remains found in a Wilmington, Delaware, park 15 years ago have been identified as a woman who died in 1907, and whose gravesite was later desecrated.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of desecrated

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On a cold night in November 2011, in a field outside Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, a gang of thugs stormed a Soviet scientific research institute, beat and humiliated the staff and burned the place to the ground.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
My husband was humiliated, he was degraded, and not able to defend himself.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of humiliated

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And so, in many ways, the well of public opinion was already poisoned.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Colonizers call it voluntary emigration, but there is nothing voluntary about fleeing after your home has been bombed, your fields poisoned, your water cut off and your child buried.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

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