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Deface
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What's The Definition Of Deface?
[v] deface a building facade, for example
[v] mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue" Synonyms | Synonyms for Deface: blemish | disfigure Related Terms | Find terms related to Deface: batter | blemish | blot | check | cicatrize | contort | crack | craze | damage | deform | demolish | destroy | dilapidate | disfigure | disproportion | distort | dysphemize | flaw | harm | impair | injure | kink | look a fright | look a mess | look bad | look like hell | look something terrible | mangle | mar | misshape | mutilate | offend | offend the eye | ruin | scab | scar | scarify | split | spoil | truncate | twist | uglify | warp | wreck See Also | cut up | deflower | impair | mangle | mangle | mar | mark | maul | mutilate | pit | pock | scar | spoil | vitiate Deface In Webster's Dictionary \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. --Pope.
2. [Cf. F. d['e]faire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence
of religion. --Bacon.
For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].
--Spenser.
Syn: See {Efface}.
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