deface
verb (used with object)
to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure.
undefaced
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a word derived from
deface.
Example Sentences
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Though ghastly and livid, the traces of intelligence and beauty were undefaced.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
He, too, was a fine specimen of humanity, a giant, nobly built, with a superbly handsome face, something like that of an undefaced Sphinx.
From The Desert Drum 1905 by Robert Smythe Hichens
He often saw her thus afterwards in his dreams, and in his death-agony her image hovered before him again, noble, undefaced, as it was impressed upon his heart at this interview.
From Erlach Court by Ossip Schubin
And we who gaze Upon each, rude memorial—letter and date— Still undefaced by storm and length of days, Stand, as beneath the shadow of a fate!
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
Three days before, its gravelled walks were smooth and clean; flowers were in bloom; birds carolled their songs amid the trees; the monuments were undefaced; the marble slabs pure and white.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
