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adjective

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as in disfigured

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as in mutilated

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verb

past tense of deface
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as in vandalized
to deliberately cause the damage or destruction of another's property the principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school

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as in damaged
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of years of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins

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Recent Examples of defaced
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Continue reading … HOLY GROUND ATTACK — World-famous Catholic shrine defaced and set on fire. — FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026 No patriots so defaced America as those who, in the name of Americanism, launched a witch hunt that became a byword around the world. — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026 That was the last time the sign was defaced. — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 12 June 2026 The cemetery, created in 1859, was abandoned and defaced before becoming the property of the county in 1967. — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 4 June 2026 At least three campaign signs for Sacramento City Council candidate Jenn Chawla were defaced with racist slurs over the weekend. — Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026 In Australia, synagogues were firebombed, cars torched and Jewish community buildings defaced – the types of attacks recently seen in the United Kingdom that have prompted calls for a crackdown on antisemitism. — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026 But then on Christmas Day of that year, Roonstrasse was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. — Daniela R. P. Weiner, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026 One very analog cost robotics companies are now dealing with as their products proliferate in the wild is repair fees for robots who have been kicked, ridden on, or otherwise defaced, Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani tells Semafor. — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defaced
  1. disfigured
  2. mutilated
  3. vandalized
  4. damaged
  5. distorted
  6. mangled
  7. destroyed
  8. marred
Adjective
  • In a particularly gnarly flashback, one sibling voluntarily — and crudely — amputates his fingers to match his brother's disfigured hand, which lost two digits when Angier shot him.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The bodies had signs of binding the hands and feet, contortion of limbs, cut off fingertips and disfigured heads, according to Kaki.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025
Definition of disfigured
Adjective
  • According to the Times coverage of the incident and subsequent lawsuit, the scenes shown in the classroom included autopsies, decaying cadavers and live animals being butchered, mutilated and tortured.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But the most difficult parts also offer ways forward — news that arrives via a skull, a mutilated body, evidence of closure in many respects of the word.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
Definition of mutilated
Verb
  • Less than one day after an east Kansas City pool opened late after being vandalized, Kansas City Parks and Recreation announced the pool will be closed until further notice.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
  • Some opponents have even taken the matter into their own hands and vandalized Flock’s cameras to take them out of commission.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
Definition of vandalized
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  • For dry, damaged, or chemically treated hair, most experts recommend using a rinse-out mask once or twice a week.
    — Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Local officials in McCaysville, which sits at the Georgia-Tennessee border, have declared a state of emergency after the downpours flooded the town and damaged the water treatment plant, causing a shortage of drinking water.
    — Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaged
Adjective
  • The same distorted numbers apply here for the mid-week releases (Far From Home, Spider-Man 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man) but again, none of this changes the fact that even adjusted for inflation, Brand New Day is the clear winner.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • And my aim in this interview is to … take off the terrible mask which was placed on our face by terrible forces, some of them, of course, forces which work on it all the time to tell a distorted story.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of distorted
Adjective
  • Chopper 4 was on the scene where a white car was flipped over and completely mangled.
    — Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • The nose of the aircraft appeared torn off, leaving mangled parts of the front of the plane dangling toward the ground.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
Definition of mangled
Verb
  • After the match, Brock Lesnar Oba Femi destroyed Brock Lesnar in their first encounter, which made an already rising Oba Femi into an overnight sensation.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Weeks later in Georgia, the Highway 82 Fire destroyed more than 120 homes – the most lost to a single fire since state records began in the 1950s – while blazes across the Southeast pushed smoke into communities that rarely see it.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Verb
  • Patrick Mahomes’ season-ending knee injury in Week 15 further marred and muddled it.
    — Vahe Gregorian July 31, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
  • That’s particularly important this year as the wildfire has curbed tourism following a tough winter marred by drought, Ducharme said.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026
Definition of marred

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