What does "defacement" mean?

An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.

What is a synonym for "defacement"?

Common synonyms include: disfiguration, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blister, cacophony.

Pronounced //dɪˈfeɪsmənt//.

//dɪˈfeɪsmənt// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Noun

1
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something. countable, uncountable
"Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns."
2
the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something wordnet
3
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value. countable, uncountable
"The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper."
4
A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another. countable, uncountable