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verb

present participle of deface
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Recent Examples of defacing
Verb
Meanwhile, the people defacing Friend’s advertisements are expressing a much larger, inchoate rage at the broader AI industry, not just these plastic pendants that practically nobody owns. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025 If a student or college employee is found defacing or otherwise vandalizing the commemoration, the bill requires the institution to expel or fire them. John Toher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025 In 2010, a man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $10,000 for intentionally defacing carvings at Lake Mead, according to the city. Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defacing
Noun
  • Executives appear worried the attacks are driven by conspiracy theories linking 5G cell towers to health risks, a concern that also sparked similar vandalism against cell sites during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025
  • He was arrested but earned his degree; very few people ever knew about his rash vandalism.
    Christopher L. Eisgruber, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If a student or college employee is found defacing or otherwise vandalizing the commemoration, the bill requires the institution to expel or fire them.
    John Toher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • British authorities have had their eyes on the group since 2020, but its June 2025 action – when activists broke into Britain’s largest airbase, RAF Brize Norton, vandalizing two Airbus Voyager refueling planes – led to its proscription.
    Max Saltman, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Including playoffs, Mayfield turned the ball over more than anyone else from 2023 through 2024, marring an otherwise fantastic two seasons in Tampa Bay.
    Jacob Robinson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • An optional front rack on both models adds instant utility without marring the retro-fantastic looks.
    William Roberson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The county was also heavily affected by the 2021 floods that swept most of Middle Tennessee, with high waters washing away multiple roads and even destroying a church in the Pinewood community, according to previous Tennessean reporting.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Just two years earlier, devastating floods swept through Middle Tennessee, damaging infrastructure and destroying a church in Pinewood.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That damaging psychic weight of insecurity and self-blame seeps into our society and politics, where polls show a stubborn and longtime trend of declining faith in a better future.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Several police officers reported that rioters were forcibly removing and damaging their equipment.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Aghion and Howitt studied the mechanisms behind sustained growth, including in a 1992 article that offered a complex mathematical model for creative destruction that added new aspects not included in earlier models.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Still, through the summer of 2020, stories of statue destruction emerged from all corners of the country.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Barner holds his arms parallel to the ground and swings them side to side while slowly stomping forward like Godzilla demolishing a city.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Often, demolishing a former shopping mall can be easier for builders who might then decide to build luxury housing that does not address the current affordability crisis.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The military junta in Myanmar dropped at least one bomb from a paraglider, killing at least 18 people and injuring another 45, some of them seriously, at a vigil protesting military rule, a human rights watchdog and the exiled former government said.
    Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Hill is out for the season after injuring ligaments in his knee in the Dolphins’ Week 4 game against the New York Jets.
    Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Defacing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defacing. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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