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n. An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.

n. An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.

n. A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

n. The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.

n. That which mars or disfigures.

n. The act of defacing or disfiguring; injury to the surface or exterior; disfigurement; obliteration.

n. That which disfigures or mars appearance.

n. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something

"He has been arrested numerous times for his artistic self-expression by his government who does not agree with his reasoning that because they are forcibly removing these citizens from their dwellings in order to demolish the buildings and build commercially on the land, that spray painting his profile on building facades is only temporary "defacement" and that, really, it is art."

harm    hurt    damage    scathe   

obliteration    disfigurement    deformation    deformity   

eyesore    travestie    impalement    curliness    wrongdoing