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defacing
Synonyms and Antonyms of defacing
- the neo-Nazis' defacing of the synagogue was condemned by the entire community
Synonyms and Antonyms of defacing
- the principal vowed to get the punks who defaced the statue in front of the school
graffitiing (also graffiting), tagging
banging up, breaking, damaging, harming, hurting, impairing, marring, shattering, spoiling
annihilating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, ravaging, ravening, razing, ruining, scourging, smashing, tearing down, totaling (or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wracking, wrecking
depredating, despoiling, looting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, ransacking, sacking, spoliating
- years of wear had defaced the fine engraving on the coins
deteriorating, enervating, enfeebling, undermining, weakening
eroding, scouring, washing out, wearing (away)
botching, gumming (up), queering
disabling, hamstringing, laming, maiming, mangling, mutilating, tormenting, torturing
annihilating, banging up, bashing, battering, clobbering, crushing, dashing, decimating, demolishing, desolating, destroying, devastating, doing in, pulverizing, razing, ruining, scourging, shattering, smashing, tearing down, totaling (or totalling), wasting, wiping out, wrecking
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