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VANDALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they vandalise ... he / she / it vandalises
Past simple: vandalised
Past participle: vandalised
-ing form: vandalising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism
Example:
vandalize the park
Synonyms:
vandalise; vandalize
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "vandalise" is one way to...):
destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vandalise"):
key (vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)
