Synonyms for defacement
de·face·ment

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1. defacementnoun

   Synonyms:
   cancellation, disfiguration, vandalism, obliteration, graffiti, devaluation

2. defacementnoun

   An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.

   Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.

   Synonyms:
   cancellation, devaluation, vandalism, graffiti, obliteration, disfiguration

3. defacementnoun

   An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.

   The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.

   Synonyms:
   obliteration, vandalism, graffiti, cancellation, devaluation, disfiguration

4. defacementnoun

   A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

   Note: The word defacement in heraldry and vexillology has none of the bad connotations its other meanings have.

   Synonyms:
   obliteration, graffiti, devaluation, cancellation, disfiguration, vandalism

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1. defacement

   Whatever mars the beauty or completeness of an object is a blemish, whether original, as squinting eyes, or the result of accident or disease, etc., as the pits of smallpox. A blemish is superficial; a flaw or taint is in structure or substance. In the moral sense, we speak of a blot or stain upon reputation; a flaw or taint in character. A defect is the want or lack of something; fault, primarily a failing, is something that fails of an apparent intent or disappoints a natural expectation; thus a sudden dislocation or displacement of geological strata is called a fault. Figuratively, a blemish comes from one's own ill-doing; a brand or stigma is inflicted by others; as, the brand of infamy.

   Synonyms:
   blemish, blot, blur, brand, crack, daub, defect, deformity, dent, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, fault, flaw, imperfection, injury, reproach, smirch, soil, speck, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish

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1. defacement, disfigurement, disfigurationnoun

   the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something

   "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"

   Synonyms:
   disfigurement, deformity, disfiguration

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1. defacementnoun

   Synonyms:
   disfigurement, injury

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1. defacementnoun

   Synonyms:
   disfigurement, mutilation, marring

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1. List of paraphrases for "defacement":

   degradation, deformation

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