Deface
[dɪ'feɪs] or [dɪ'fes]
Definition
(verb.) mar or spoil the appearance of; 'scars defaced her cheeks'; 'The vandals disfigured the statue'.
Inputed by Diego--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(v. t.) To destroy; to make null.
Inputed by Errol
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Disfigure, deform, mar, spoil, injure, soil, tarnish.
Checker: Lucy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mar, spoil, injure, disfigure, deform, damage, mutilate, destroy
ANT:Decorate, adorn, embellish
Typist: Ruth
Definition
v.t. to destroy or mar the face or external appearance of to disfigure: to obliterate.—n. Deface′ment act of defacing: injury to form or appearance: that which defaces.—adv. Defā′cingly.
Typed by Howard
Examples
- He might as well have attempted to deface the moon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yet none of the defaced human forms which I distinguished, could be Raymond; so I turned my eyes away, while my heart sickened within me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At length they came back into the town; and, turning into an old public-house with a defaced sign-board, ordered some dinner by the kitchen fire. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He had been evidently thrown from his horse by some falling ruin, which had crushed his head, and defaced his whole person. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But though very much defaced, its value has been kept up by that of the gold coin, for which it is exchanged. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- For quickly the fair proportion of this edifice would be more defaced, than are the sand-choked ruins of the desert temples of Palmyra. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For though, before the late recoinage, the gold coin was a good deal defaced too, it was less so than the silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Seth