Desecrate meaning - What does desecrate mean?

Victim of cemetery theft calls stolen vase , 'desecrating the dead'.

The imam 's arrest could release the girl, who supporters say is mentally handicapped, out of prison, where she faces a life sentence if convicted of charges she desecrated the Quran.

Suspects Who Desecrated Grave Were Looking for Something.

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.