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defacement

/dih-feys/US // dɪˈfeɪs //UK // (dɪˈfeɪs) //

污损,涂污,涂鸦,涂改

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    de·faced, de·fac·ing.

    • : to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
    • : to efface, obliterate, or injure the surface of, as to make illegible or invalid: to deface a bond.

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Examples

  • Several videos showing the “Lohan Defacement” went up on YouTube.

  • Probably other instances of property defacement will be found, but these so far are the most glaring that have come to light.

  • Pictures of generals or royalties are especially liable to defacement with opprobrious epithets.

  • Later evidence indicates that while there was a demonstration there was no defacement of the vault.

  • It would be easy to cite a hundred other words like these, saved only by their nobler uses in literature from ultimate defacement.

  • A bendlet wavy sinister is such an absolute defacement of a crest that few can care to make use of a crest so marked.