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English to English noun
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the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something |  | Example: the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
source: wordnet30
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The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration. | | source: webster1913
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