deface
verb (used with object)
to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure.
defaces
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present tense formof deface (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In another video, Sweeney defaces an American Eagle billboard that reads “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” crossing out the word “jeans” and replacing it with “genes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
The extreme one offered here frequently defaces it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
She then strips and defaces a portrait of her husband.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2018
The twist: Huckins defaces these replicas with cyber-slang text and smartphone icons, painted as neatly as the portraits themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2017
Each is wholly himself; no hint of critical irony defaces his character; and thus each is able, implicitly, to put his case with the power inherent in the genuinely and recognisably human.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Gerhart Hauptmann
