Defacement

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Defacement \De*face"ment\, n.
     1. The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced;
        injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
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     2. That which mars or disfigures. --Bacon.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  defacement
       n : 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" [syn: {disfigurement}, {disfiguration}]