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Deface meaning
To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
Example sentences (15)
Although it was an admittedly bad joke, using this to deface a generally unblemished career is absurd.
Some were attempting to break into locked buildings or to deface property.
He condemned those who targeted statues as "angry mobs" trying to deface "our most sacred memorials".
The 2009 painting by artist Lorna May Wadsworth became a symbol of resistance after vandals used a pellet gun to deface the artwork.
A607, Marlborough, for deface property, warrant.
He wants to know why someone would deface a symbol of hope rising from desparation.
The act also makes it a crime to deface tribal historic sites listed on the registry, and incorporates a permit system for excavation and manipulation of cultural resources on historic sites.
Banksy is a graffiti artist; the goal of his art has always been accessibility to the public — murals on walls ready for passerby to admire or deface.
Landlords were dealing with drug dens, tenants who deface the community with front yard junk piles, people who go through the garbage and strew it everywhere.
Mann — known online as "Conspiracy Granny" — started to deface a poster, Pomeroy said, while Ussery walked up to him and began yelling while filming the encounter.
Oh, and don’t deface a song probably written by the late, great Bob Marley in the name of opposing rights for women.
Refuse deface the waterways, it causes accident and also damage boat engines.
The aviation minister also suggested that Mr Abubakar’s claims had been hatched from Dubai to deface the Buhari administration as intolerant of opposition ahead of a competitive general election.
The Vandals may not have been any more destructive than other invaders of ancient times, but they did inspire British poet John Dryden to write, Till Goths, and Vandals, a rude Northern race, Did all the matchless Monuments deface (1694).
Traditionally, the flag may be decorated with golden fringe surrounding the perimeter of the flag as long as it does not deface the flag proper.