Meaning of DEFACE
| Pronunciation: | | di'feys
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- [v] deface a building facade, for example
- [v] mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
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| | Synonyms: | | blemish, disfigure |
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| | See Also: | | cut up, deflower, impair, mangle, mangle, mar, mark, maul, mutilate, pit, pock, scar, spoil, vitiate | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*face"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Defaced}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Defacing}.] [OE. defacen to disfigure, efface, OF.
desfacier; L. dis- + facies face. See {Face}, and cf.
{Efface}.]
1. 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. ``This high face defaced.'' --Emerson.
So by false learning is good sense defaced. --Pope.
2. [Cf. F. d['e]faire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
[Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence
of religion. --Bacon.
For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].
--Spenser.
Syn: See {Efface}.
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| | Related Terms: | | batter, blemish, blot, check, cicatrize, contort, crack, craze, damage, deform, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, disfigure, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, flaw, harm, impair, injure, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, mangle, mar, misshape, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, split, spoil, truncate, twist, uglify, warp, wreck |
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