What is "defaced"

Usage examples of "defaced".

By the aid of a friend, I also present some poems complete and correct which hitherto have been defaced by various mistakes and omissions.

Similar diamonds defaced the shutters, the shop front, and the swan-shaped sign that hung above the door.

This he basely commanded to be defaced, and it was as basely done by the hand of Mr.

No-Truth, the image of Shaddai was defaced, he likewise gave order that the same Mr.

In her own, she touched a broken sword with a defaced hilt emblem, a ring, and something warm, but bypassed them all for things more suited to their present need.

But now it looked as if it had been deliberately defaced and despoiled.

They came into that part of the temple where there was a stone much hacked and defaced with scorching, a central altar once, Ray believed.

But as it happens, it was not I who defaced the picture, but another passenger, apparently with insufficient grasp of the basic importance of official papers.

He has defaced or destroyed over a dozen statues, broken fifteen stained glass windows depicting her image, and ruined over half a million dollars in church property.