Deface

Definitions: Deface

Deface

Verb

1. Mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks".

2. Deface a building facade, for example.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deface" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references)

Note: Deface \De*face"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Defaced; present participle verb or noun Defacing.]. (Websters 1913)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Deface

Amorphism

Verb: deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar.

Deterioration

Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Ugliness

Render ugly; Adjective: deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish; (injure); soil; (render unclean).

Crosswords: Deface

Music

• Deface the Music (reference)

• Deface the Music [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Of what use is it to deface the crown of Louis XIV.

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Human Rights

Macedonia

Police also reportedly forced the villagers to deface copies of the Koran and looted their homes. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

They should stop for a presidential motorcade, stand for the national anthem, and under no circumstances destroy or deface a portrait of the President. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, vitiate, wrench), shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deform, deprave, distort, falsify, mutilate, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty, warp), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), fshij (brush, brush away, cancel, clean off, clean up, delete, efface, erase, mop up, obliterate, rase, raze, remove, rub, rub out, scratch out, strike off, sweep, wipe, wipe away, wipe off), bëj i palexueshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏محا (blot out, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, obliterate, rub out, scratch out, sponge out, wipe off, wipe out), ‏طمس (defacement, efface, effacement, monthly, obliterate, obliteration), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обезобразявам (defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, mangle, uglify), заличавам (efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, remove), задрасквам (cancel, cross out, delete, expunge, scratch off, scratch out, strike through, take off), правя нечетлив. (various references)

Chinese 

损毁 (Defaced, Defacing). (various references)

Czech

zohavit, znetvořit (deform, disfeature, disfigure, misshape), zkreslit (color, colour, distort, manipulate, misrepresent, skew), poèmárat. (various references)

Farsi 

محوکردن (Blur, Efface, Eliminate, Erase, Expunge, Obliterate, Raze, Unbuild, Washout), ازشکل انداختن (Botch, Contort, Deform, Disfigure), بدشکل کردن (Deform, Disfigure, Misshape). (various references)

French

rendre illisible, effacer (delete), barbouiller. (various references)

German

verunstalten (blemish, deform, disfigure, scar, to blemish, to deface, uglify). (various references)

Greek 

καταστρέφω (annihilate, blast, blemish, blight, decimate, deflower, destroy, devastate, disrupt, do for, impair, kill, ravage, ruin, shake down, spoil, undo, wreck), παραμορφώνω (batter, contort, deform, disfigure, distort, misrepresent, uglify), ασχημίζω (disfigure). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שחית צור�" (disfigure), לטשטש (besmear, blot, blur, discolour, haze, smudge). (various references)

Hungarian

eltorzít (contort, deform, disfeature, distort, to contort, to disfigure, to distort, to rack), elcsúfít (blemish, disfigure, to disfigure, uglify). (various references)

Indonesian

merusakkan (deleterious, desolate, destroy, foozie, queer, wreck). (various references)

Italian

deturpare (disfigure, sully), sfregiare (disfigure, gash, slash), sfigurare (cut a poor figure, disfigure), mutilare (cripple, maim, mutilate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

磨り潰す (to deface, to lose a fortune, to mash, to pulverize), �"�り潰す (to deface, to lose a fortune, to mash, to pulverize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すりつぶす (to deface, to lose a fortune, to mash, to pulverize). (various references)

Korean 

마멸하십시�". (various references)

Manx

dolley (black out, blot, blot on character, blot out, blur, defacement, erasure, lack). (various references)

Pig Latin

efaceday

Portuguese

desformar, desfigurar (defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, distort, Mar, rub), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcerted, foulard, impair, injure, marabou, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poisoner, queer, rub, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Romanian

discredita (cry down, cut up, damage, decry, demolish, depreciate, discredit, disparage, pull to pieces, run down, throw discredit on, undermine, write down), deteriora (damage, debase, deteriorate, impair), desfigura (defeature, disfeature, disfigure, distort), deforma (contort, deform, disfigure, distort, mangle, mutilate, twist), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

уродовать (disfigure, uglify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamrljati (besmear), učiniti nejasnim. (various references)

Spanish

desfigurar (defalcate, disfigure, Mar, Mark, misrepresent), mutilar (cripple, disable, emasculate, garble, maim, mangle, mutilate), hacer una mutilación. (various references)

Swedish

vanställa (blemish, deform, disfeature, disfigure). (various references)

Turkish

tahrif etmek (falsify, tamper with), okunmaz hale getirmek, görünüşünü bozmak, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), çirkinleştirmek (deform, disfigure, uglify). (various references)

Ukranian 

стирати (abrade, cancel, chafe, delete, efface, erase, obliterate, rub out, wipe away), спотворювати (defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, distort, uglify), нівечити (canker, defeature, deform, disfigure, lame, maim, vandalize), затінювати (dim, obfuscate, obscure), затемнювати (adumbrate, bedarken, bedim, blind, darken, dim out, obfuscate, obscure, obumbrate, overshadow), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "deface": defaced, defacement, defacements, defacer, defacers, defaces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Deface" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: befice, deace, Deacey, debac, debace, defact, defade, defence, defiace, defoe, delace, Didace, diffence, Dre-fach, Dufeck, edace, edfice, Edvac, eface. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: decaf, faced.

-2 letters: aced, cade, cafe, cede, dace, deaf, face, fade, feed.

-3 letters: ace, cad, cee, dee, fad, fed, fee.

-4 letters: ad, ae, de, ed, ef, fa.

+1 letter: defaced, defacer, defaces, effaced, enfaced, faceted, refaced.

+2 letters: affected, casefied, defacers, defecate, defiance, facetted, federacy, feedback, prefaced.

+3 letters: acetified, afterdeck, barefaced, chaffered, chamfered, defalcate, defecated, defecates, defiances, fecundate, feedbacks, friedcake, refracted.

+4 letters: affectedly, afterdecks, cofeatured, confederal, defacement, defalcated, defalcates, defeasance, defecating, defecation, defenceman, facelifted, farfetched, fecundated, fecundates, federacies, fireplaced, forecaddie, forecasted, freelanced, fricasseed, friedcakes, interfaced, refinanced, repacified, resurfaced, shamefaced, unaffected.

+5 letters: affectioned, barefacedly, biofeedback, caffeinated, chauffeured, codefendant, confederacy, confederate, deacidified, deacidifies, decalcified, decalcifies, defacements, defeasances, defecations, deflectable, disaffected, effectuated, felicitated, forecaddies, forereached, fraudulence, preachified, prefinanced, transfected, vociferated.

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