(n) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something, Syn.disfiguration, disfigurement, Example: the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion; he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Defaced p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing. ] [ OE. defacen to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face. See Face, and cf. Efface. ] 1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. “This high face defaced.” Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
So by false learning is good sense defaced. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. [ Cf. F. défaire. ] To destroy; to make null. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
[ Profane scoffing ] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
For all his power was utterly defaste [ defaced ]. Spenser.
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