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DEFACEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Example:
he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
Synonyms:
defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement; mutilation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("defacement" is a kind of...):
damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)
Derivation:
deface (mar or spoil the appearance of)
