Usually means: Unauthorized alteration of visual appearance.
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  1. defacement: Merriam-Webster
  2. defacement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defacement: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Defacement, defacement: Wordnik
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  7. Defacement, defacement: Dictionary.com
  8. Defacement (flag), Defacement (vandalism), Defacement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Defacement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. defacement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. defacement: Rhymezone
  12. Defacement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. defacement: FreeDictionary.org
  14. defacement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Defacement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. defacement: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defacement: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defacement)

noun:  An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
noun:  An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
noun:  (heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

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