Deface

deface
    v 1: mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks";
         "The vandals disfigured the statue" [syn: {deface},
         {disfigure}, {blemish}]
    

Deface \De*face"\ (d[-e]*f[=a]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Defaced}
   (d[-e]*f[=a]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Defacing}.] [OE. defacen
   to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face.
   See {Face}, and cf. {Efface}.]
   1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to
      disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or
      obliterating important features or portions of; as, to
      deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface
      writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a
      record. "This high face defaced." --Emerson.
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            So by false learning is good sense defaced. --Pope.
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   2. [Cf. F. d['e]faire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
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            [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence
            of religion.                          --Bacon.
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            For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].
                                                  --Spenser.

   Syn: See {Efface}.
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44 Moby Thesaurus words for "deface":
      batter, blemish, blot, check, cicatrize, contort, crack, craze,
      damage, deform, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, disfigure,
      disproportion, distort, dysphemize, flaw, harm, impair, injure,
      kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell,
      look something terrible, mangle, mar, misshape, mutilate, offend,
      offend the eye, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, split, spoil, truncate,
      twist, uglify, warp, wreck