defacement
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/dɪˈfeɪsmənt/
English
Definitions
noun
- An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.“Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.”
- An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.“The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.”
- (vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
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cancellationdevaluationdisfigurationgraffitiobliterationvandalismdisfigurementdegradationbreakdowndamagedeteriorationdeformationworseningdistortiondeflectionmisrepresentationstraindefilement