Synonyms of graffiti

graffiti

verb

as in to tag

Related Words

• tag
• desecrate
• damage
• deface
• vandalize
• violate
• trash
• harm
• hurt
• mar
• scourge
• impair
• wipe out
• tear down
• destroy
• spoil
• waste
• wreck
• shatter
• bang up
• ruin
• smash
• demolish
• total
• raze
• sabotage
• annihilate
• ravage
• break
• sack
• raven
• loot
• plunder
• pillage
• wrack
• devastate
• despoil
• ransack
• spoliate
• maraud
• depredate

Dissimilar Words

• protect
• preserve
• save
• build
• conserve
• salvage
• rebuild

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of graffiti

In New York City, antisemites graffiti the walls with Jew-hatred. — Mike Wagenheim, Sun Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022

The announcement follows a weekend of protests in the United Kingdom, where on June 7, protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol and graffitied a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in London. — Mélissa Godin, Time, 9 June 2020

What parts of the dining room walls that aren’t obscured by supplies are graffitied with well wishes in English, Spanish and Mandarin, and taped with paper bills like a neighborhood bar. — Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020

In under a hundred years, Florence’s equivalent of a New York minute, the majority were bordered up, graffitied over, repurposed into doorbell posts, or completely covered. — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2020