The meaning of DEFACE is to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details. How to use deface in a sentence.

DEFACED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of deface 2. to damage and spoil the appearance of something by…. Learn more.

DEFACE definition: to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure. See examples of deface used in a sentence.

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Definition of deface verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

defaced (dɪˈfeɪst) adj having had the surface, legibility, or appearance spoiled or marred

/dɪˈfeɪs/ IPA guide Other forms: defaced; defacing; defaces If you deface something, you've blemished or disfigured it in some way. For example, graffiti can deface a statue. To deface something means …

de•face /dɪˈfeɪs/ v. [ ~ + obj], -faced, -fac•ing. disfigure: defacing all the posters. de•face•ment, n. [uncountable] See -face-. de•face (di fās′), v.t., -faced, -fac•ing. disfigure: to deface a wall by writing …

The building was defaced with graffiti. He was fined for defacing public property.

Records were on occasion rewritten or defaced to erase all traces of former quarrels which put present governors in a bad light.