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VANDAL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("vandal" is a kind of...):

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Derivation:

vandalise; vandalize (destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Vandal" is a kind of...):

barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)

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