defacement
Meaning of defacement
noun
- An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
- An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
- (vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
Information about defacement
- It is a name.
- The plural form of defacement is: defacements.
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Hyphenation of defacement
de-face-ment
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- defacement is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
defacement synonyms
Meaning disfigurement:
Meaning :
cancellation, devaluation, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism
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