Damage vs Desecrates - What's the difference?
damage | desecrates |
Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
* Francis Bacon
(slang) Cost or expense.
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
* Clarendon
(desecrate)
(transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something.
* 1916 — James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley ,
(transitive) To remove the consecration from someone or something; to deconsecrate.
(transitive) To inappropriately change.
* 1913 — William Alexander Lambeth and Warren H. Manning,
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Desecrated.
*1842 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Myster of Marie Rogêt’:
*:Here are the very nooks where the unwashed most abound—here are the temples most desecrate .
As verbs the difference between damage and desecrates
is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while desecrates is (desecrate).As a noun damage
is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.damage
English
(wikipedia damage)Noun
- The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
- Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
- "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.
Verb
(damag)- Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
- He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
desecrates
English
Verb
(head)desecrate
English
Verb
Volume 10.
- It's reform -- reform! You're going to 'turn over a new leaf,' and all that, and sign the pledge, and quit cigars, and go to work, and pay your debts, and gravitate back into Sunday-school, where you can make love to the preacher's daughter under the guise of religion, and desecrate the sanctity of the innermost pale of the church by confessions at Class of your 'thorough conversion'!
Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and a Designer of Landscapes.
- A subsequent owner has desecrated the main hall and robbed it of its grandeur by putting in a floor just beneath the circular windows in order to make an upper room over the hall.
citation, passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}
