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defacingnoun deliberate damaging or destroying of another's propertythe neo-Nazis' defacing of the synagogue was condemned by the entire community defacement, trashing, vandalism, vandalization demolishing, demolishment, desecrating, desecration, destruction, ravage, ravaging, ruin, ruination, wreckingsabotagedepredation, despoiling, despoilment, looting, marauding, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, predation, ransacking, sacking, spoliation conservation, preservation, protection, salvage, saving defacingverbpresent participle of defaceto deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's propertythe principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school trashing, vandalizing desecrating, violatinggraffitiing(also graffiting), taggingbanging up, breaking, damaging, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, shattering, spoilingannihilating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, ravaging, ravening, razing, ruining, scourging, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wracking, wreckingsabotagingdepredating, despoiling, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, ransacking, sacking, spoliating conserving, preserving, protecting, savingsalvagingbuilding, rebuilding to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection ofyears of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins blemishing, bloodying, breaking, compromising, crabbing, crippling, crossing (up), damaging, disfiguring, endamaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, spoiling, vitiating deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakeningeroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)blighting, tarnishingdenting, dinging, dintingbotching, gumming (up), queeringlacerating, woundingdisabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturingannihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking doctoring, fixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renovating, repairing, revamping curing, healing, helping, rectifying, rehabilitating, remedyingediting, remodeling, revisingameliorating, bettering, enhancing, enriching, improving, meliorating, perfecting, refining |