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defacement

noun
/dɪˈfeɪsmənt/

Etymology

From deface + -ment.

  1. derived from facia
  2. derived from defacier
  3. inherited from defacen
  4. suffixed as defacement — “deface + ment”

Definitions

  1. An act of defacing

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

    • Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.

  2. An act of voiding or devaluing

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

    • The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defacement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA