Deface

[De*faceĀ·]

If you deface something, you've blemished or disfigured it in some way. For example, graffiti can deface a statue.

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To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

Verb
deface a building facade, for example

Verb
mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"


v. t.
To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

v. t.
To destroy; to make null.


Deface

De*face" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defaced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing.] [OE. defacen to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face. See Face, and cf. Efface.] 1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. "This high face defaced." Emerson.
So by false learning is good sense defaced.
2. [Cf. F. d'82faire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion.
For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].
Syn. -- See Efface.

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

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Usage Examples

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

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