Meaning & use
defaced
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Deliberately spoiled or damaged the surface or appearance of something.
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The statue was defaced with graffiti overnight.
Someone had defaced the library book by scribbling notes in the margins.
A note on using this word
Commonly used in legal and news contexts describing vandalism of public or historic property.
Words with a similar meaning
vandalizeddisfigured
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Words with an opposite meaning
restored
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