| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To disfigure, deform or uglify.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To mutilate, disable, maim or mangle. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To distort, contort or pervert. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To spoil, impair, deprave, destroy or perish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To desecrate, contaminate, infect or pollute.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb deface.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (deface) | 1. Mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks".[Wordnet]. 2. Deface a building facade, for example.[Wordnet]. 3. 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.[Websters]. 4. To destroy; to make null.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: defacing, defaced, defaces, defacer, defacers, defacingly and defacedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DEFACING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1560. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFACING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Injuring the face or surface; marring; disfiguring; erasing. De facto. [L.] actually; in fact; existing; as a king de facto, distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Medicine | Defacement: the act of defacing or state of being defaced: injury to surface or outward appearance. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of deface. (references) | ||
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