Deface

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure.
  • v. To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of.
  • v. Obsolete To obliterate; destroy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
  • v. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
  • v. To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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
  • v. To destroy; to make null.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To mar the face or surface of; disfigure; spoil the appearance of: as, to deface a monument.
  • To impair or efface; blot or blot out; erase; obliterate; cancel: as, to deface an inscription; to deface a record.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. mar or spoil the appearance of
  • Antonym
    beautify    ornament   
    Verb Form
    defaced    defaces    defacing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deflower    vitiate    spoil    mar    impair   
    Cross Reference
    defaced coin    efface   
    Hyponym
    maul    mangle    scar    pock    mark    pit   
    Form
    defacement   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    efface    destroy    disfigure    mark    disfeature    defeature    dedecorate    disvisage    disfashion    deform   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ace    Chase    Grace    Mace    Race    ace    apace    base    bass    brace   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    milk-teeth    butch/femme    accepter    drinking-horn    paroistre    medow    leafe    taire    partager    evader