Usually means: Damaging appearance or surface deliberately.
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  1. defacing: Merriam-Webster
  2. defacing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defacing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defacing, defacing: Wordnik
  5. defacing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defacing: Wiktionary
  7. defacing: Dictionary.com
  8. defacing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defacing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Defacing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. defacing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. defacing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. defacing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defacing: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defacing: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  defacement

Similar:
disfigure, blemish, defeature, defile, decreation, defiguration, despoiling, debasing, denigration, degrading, more...

Opposite:
beautifying, enhancing, improving, embellishing

Types:
graffiti, vandalism, tagging, carving, etching, stickering, smearing, scraping, scratching, more...



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Similar:
disfigure, blemish, defeature, defile, decreation, defiguration, despoiling, debasing, denigration, degrading, more...

Opposite:
beautifying, enhancing, improving, embellishing

Types:
graffiti, vandalism, tagging, carving, etching, stickering, smearing, scraping, scratching, more...



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