deface
verb (used with object)
to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure.
defacer
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a word derived from
deface.
Example Sentences
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But for Nix, a self-described “tough SOB” who felt energized by this “cat and mouse” battle, the sign’s defacer became an adversary.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2021
Its chaste and simple grandeur has fairly put to the rout the modern decorator, with his paint-pots and gold leaf,—that 120 sturdy and well-patronized defacer of the real, with the garniture of the cheat.
From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by William Henry Hamilton Rogers
