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Noun: defacement  di'feys-munt
  1. The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
    "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion";
    - disfigurement, disfiguration, mutilation

Derived forms: defacements

Type of: damage, harm, hurt, scathe [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Defacement

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