deface
to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
to efface, obliterate, or injure the surface of, as to make illegible or invalid: to deface a bond.
Origin of deface
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Other words for deface
Other words from deface
- de·face·a·ble, adjective
- de·face·ment, noun
- de·fac·er, noun
- un·de·face·a·ble, adjective
- un·de·faced, adjective
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How to use deface in a sentence
Gang members defaced businesses, schools, parks, churches, and public walls with graffiti.
Los Angeles Had a Chance to Build a Better City After the Rodney King Violence in 1992. Here's Why It Failed | Elizabeth Hinton | May 18, 2021 | TimeImagine how devastating it would have been had the stonework itself been defaced and left in ruins — a universal, visual trope for civilization’s collapse.
Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home | Walter Nicklin | April 2, 2021 | Washington PostAt the event in 2018, one water pipe control system, likely used for a commercial building, had its computer screen defaced with graffiti-type messages.
America’s Drinking Water Is Surprisingly Easy to Poison | by Peter Elkind and Jack Gillum | March 17, 2021 | ProPublicaAlas, they have little time to contemplate their momentous finding before their lighting equipment fails and, in the ensuing darkness, they are set upon by an assailant who knocks Henry out, kidnaps Totel and defaces the mural.
‘Mutropolis’: A game definitely worth watching on YouTube | Christopher Byrd | March 12, 2021 | Washington PostThere they denounced a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general, defaced it, toppled it with ropes and chains and set it ablaze.
Before sports get credit for doing the right thing, remember how long it took to get there | Kevin Blackistone | December 18, 2020 | Washington Post
After sneaking in under the cover of night, the vandals chose these symbols to deface.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Vandalize Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial | Alex Klein | June 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was as if Romney had lit his résumé on fire, and had returned to Boston to deface his gubernatorial portrait.
I am famous practise; for there is scarcely a day when I do not deface God's noblest work for others, or they for me.
Chicot the Jester | Alexandre Dumas, PereEven the necessary filth of commerce cannot destroy, or scarcely deface the beauty of the country.
They are the last we shall give to show the extreme wildness and extravagance which deface the drama of Festus.
Nor was I willing to deface the pages of the work with explanatory notes.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages | William Andrus AlcottIn the sultry season of 1783, honey-dews were so frequent as to deface and destroy the beauties of my garden.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 | Gilbert White
British Dictionary definitions for deface
/ (dɪˈfeɪs) /
(tr) to spoil or mar the surface, legibility, or appearance of; disfigure
Derived forms of deface
- defaceable, adjective
- defacement, noun
- defacer, noun
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