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The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
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defacement
Word definitions for defacement in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Defacement is a type of vandalism that involves damaging the appearance or surface of something. The object of damage may be architecture, books, paintings, sculpture or other forms of art. Examples of defacement include: Marking or removing the part of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An act of deface; an instance of visibly marring or disfigure something. 2 An act of voiding or devalue; nullification of the face value. 3 (context heraldry vexillology English) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape" [syn: disfigurement , disfiguration ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from deface + -ment .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defacement \De*face"ment\, n. The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration. That which mars or disfigures. --Bacon.
Usage examples of defacement.
The environmentalists worried about defacement of the landscape, the amplified ugliness of cities surrounded by bunds taller than twelve-story buildings.
Juan widened his vision, allowed deviations and defacements in the view.
Here and there were subtle defacements, the largest boulders morphing into trollishness.
He had even corrected library books, embellishing their margins with ¶s and lc's and s, which he viewed not as defacements but as "improvements.
Virginal paperbacks, their margins a tabula rasa for narcissistic scribbles, were cheap enough to inspire minimal guilt when I wrote in them and bland enough to accept my defacements without complaint.
A row of eight metallic cylinders not unlike the one I'd woken up in yesterday were ranked along one wall, but where my birthing tube had been unpainted and scarred with the million tiny defacements of frequent use, these units carried a thick gloss of cream paint with yellow trim around the transparent observation plate and the various functional protrusions.
Defiant at first, Inky swore he would never stop his defacements, but being admitted to the Gang, a place where he could finally belong, worked wonders.
The church burnings seemed to feed off one another, much as a rash of synagogue defacements had in 1992.