unhallow

Questions about unhallow

What does unhallow mean?

unhallow means "remove the consecration from a person or an object".

How many syllables are in unhallow?

unhallow has 3 syllables: un-hal-low. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for unhallow?

Close synonyms include desecrate, deconsecrate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unhallow a common word?

unhallow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.