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DEFACE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deface ... he / she / it defaces
Past simple: defaced
Past participle: defaced
-ing form: defacing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mar or spoil the appearance of
Example:
The vandals disfigured the statue
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "deface" is one way to...):
deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate (make imperfect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deface"):
mangle; maul (injure badly by beating)
mark; pit; pock; scar (mark with a scar)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
defacement (the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something)
