deface
verb (used with object)
to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure.
will deface
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future tenseof deface.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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If we build it, they will deface it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
A lot of times what will happen is someone will deface a poster by crossing out words or scratching out words or trying to change the message or eliminate and erase the message of it.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2020
And they are features which will deface the best story ever told.
From How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell by Sara Cone Bryant
It is like the polish on a mirror, or an exquisite toilet table, one scratch will destroy it; and the finer it is the smaller the scratch that will deface it.
From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson
