defacement

Meaning of defacement

noun
  1. An 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.
  2. An 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.
  3. (vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

Information about defacement

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of defacement is: defacements.
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Hyphenation of defacement

de-face-ment

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • defacement is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

defacement synonyms

Meaning disfigurement:

disfigurement, disfiguration

Meaning :

cancellation, devaluation, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism

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