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English noun: defacement

1. defacement (act) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something


SamplesThe defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion.
He objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape.


Synonymsdisfiguration, disfigurement


Broader (hypernym)damage, harm, hurt, scathe









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