defacement.
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
Meaning & usage
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English deface Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English defacement From deface + -ment.
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