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Definition of Deface
1. Verb. Mar or spoil the appearance of. "The vandals disfigured the statue"
Generic synonyms: Deflower, Impair, Mar, Spoil, Vitiate
Specialized synonyms: Mangle, Maul, Mark, Pit, Pock, Scar
Derivative terms: Blemish, Defacement, Disfiguration, Disfigurement, Disfigurement
Definition of Deface
1. v. t. 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.
Definition of Deface
1. Verb. To damage something, espacially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. ¹
2. Verb. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value. ¹
3. Verb. (heraldry flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deface
1. to mar the appearance of [v -FACED, -FACING, -FACES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deface
Literary usage of Deface
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"deface. achievement, is a term used in plain prose ; it designates not so much
what is great as ... deface expresses more than either deform and disfigure. ..."
2. A Desk-book of Errors in English, Including Notes on Colloquialisms and by Frank H. Vizetelly (1920)
"die deface, disfigure : Discriminate between these words. Persons deface things,
for to deface implies a deliberate act of destruction; but disfiguration ..."
3. The Visigothic Code: (Forum Judicum) by Visigoths, Samuel Parsons Scott (1910)
"I. Concerning Persons who deface or Injure Tombs. II. Where a Coffin is Removed
from a Grave. I. Concerning Persons who deface or Injure Tombs. ..."
4. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... to inspect the currency now in circulation in this county, and such of the
bills as they shall believe to be counterfeit to deface, ..."
5. War in Disguise, Or, The Frauds of the Neutral Flags by James Stephen (1806)
"deface , TO THE T EDITION •llowing sheets have been in considerable haste, on
orary considerations which ..."
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