change by reversal, reverse, turn - change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
With the extinguishing of the eternal flame, Rabbi Valerie Cohen will formally deconsecrate the sanctuary, the mezuzot will be removed, and the doors will close on a fundamental piece of Worcester's Jewish history.
In unitary societies, whenever the merchant class, with its disrespect for tradition, threatened to deconsecrate values, the coherence of myth would give way to the myth of coherence.
The Malacca Islamic Religious Council, for example, launched a campaign to deconsecrate Muslim keramat tombs and shrines on Pulau Besar, Malacca on All Souls Day, 2 November 1983, on the grounds that the act of worshipping at the tombs was against the teachings of Islam.
