If you deface something, you've blemished or disfigured it in some way. For example, graffiti can deface a statue.
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;
Verb
deface a building facade, for example
Verb
mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
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.
Deface
So by false learning is good sense defaced.2.
[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion.
For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].
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;
Usage Examples
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Other Usage ExamplesThey claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.