Meaning & use
vandalizing
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Deliberately damaging or destroying property, especially public or others' property.
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Teenagers were caught vandalizing the park's benches with spray paint.
The school installed cameras after someone kept vandalizing the lockers.
A note on using this word
Vandalizing derives from 'Vandal,' the Germanic tribe whose sack of Rome in 455 CE became a byword for wanton destruction.
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