Defacement

from 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}]

from 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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