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Synonyms for defacement
de·face·ment
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Wiktionary
defacementnoun
Synonyms:
cancellation, disfiguration, vandalism, obliteration, graffiti, devaluationdefacementnoun
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, disfigurationdefacementnoun
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.
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obliteration, vandalism, graffiti, cancellation, devaluation, disfigurationdefacementnoun
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
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Princeton's WordNet
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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
defacementnoun
Synonyms:
disfigurement, injury
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
defacementnoun
Synonyms:
disfigurement, mutilation, marring
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "defacement":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#974 | brand | |
#2620 | injury | |
#2915 | spot | |
#3202 | soil | |
#4224 | crack | |
#5045 | fault | |
#7191 | cancellation | |
#10327 | defect | |
#11185 | degradation | |
#12545 | stain | |
#13688 | graffiti | |
#13712 | dent | |
#16176 | flaw | |
#17984 | blur | |
#19770 | deformation | |
#22931 | vandalism | |
#23782 | stigma | |
#24566 | blot | |
#26615 | disgrace | |
#30914 | speck | |
#42903 | reproach | |
#43554 | blemish | |
#46074 | devaluation | |
#46613 | taint | |
#48486 | deformity | |
#51950 | tarnish | |
#56562 | imperfection | |
#59800 | dishonor | |
#80746 | obliteration | |
#91218 | disfigurement | |
#108001 | defacement | |
#113170 | daub |
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