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Deface

//dɪˈfeɪs// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.

    "1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan."

  2. 2
    mar or spoil the appearance of wordnet
  3. 3
    To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.

    "He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them."

  4. 4
    To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

    "You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross."

Etymology

From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (“to mutilate, destroy, disfigure”), from des- (“away from”) (see dis-) + Late Latin facia.

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