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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something;
- Example: "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"
- Example: "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"
[syn: defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Defacement \De*face"ment\, n.
   1. The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced;
      injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
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   2. That which mars or disfigures. --Bacon.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

defacement
    n 1: the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something;
         "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish
         invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement
         of the landscape" [syn: defacement, disfigurement,
         disfiguration]