Meanings
plural defacements
- countableuncountableAn 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: disfiguration, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism
- countableuncountableAn 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.
Synonyms: cancellation, devaluation
- countableuncountablegovernmentA symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
nounAn act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan desfiguració, devaluació
- desfiguraciómarring, disfiguring
- devaluacióvoiding, nullification
Finnish turmeleminen, mitätöinti
- turmeleminenmarring, disfiguring
- mitätöintivoiding, nullification
- lisäysadded symbol
Irish lot, milleadh
- lotmarring, disfiguring
- milleadhmarring, disfiguring
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with defacement
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defacement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defacement
“defacement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defacement. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “defacement,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/defacement.
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