defacement

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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.

A symbol added to a flag to change it or make it different from another

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

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.

{n} a disfiguring, violation, injury
A symbol added to a flag to change it [the flag] or make it different from another
{i} destruction, act of marring or disfiguring the surface of something; vandalism
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"
The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration
That which mars or disfigures
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To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value

One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.

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to mar or disfigure the face or external surface of
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{v} to disfigure, destroy, erase, blot out
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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
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To place a BADGE on a flag
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deface a building facade, for example mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue
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deface a building facade, for example
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mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
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To damage something in a visible or conspicuous manner
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{f} destroy the surface of; vandalize
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Spoiling the surface of an object
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To destroy; to make null
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If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it. It's illegal to deface banknotes. to spoil the surface or appearance of something, especially by writing on it or breaking it
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