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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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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
Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
Blue splatters of paint have since come to accompany the mural after it was defaced.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
What the 37-year-old rapper is pissed about is that this billboard-sized monument to his greatness was defaced.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Whoever defaced the Kendrick mural in Compton must be waking up surprised that their scribbling prompted the opening salvo for the record.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
Min has faced a barrage of attacks related to his DUI arrest last year and last month had his campaign signs defaced with anti-Asian slurs.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
The social media reaction was as unhappy as guest star Keegan-Michael Key's Smilin' Jack Furniture Store owner character was in the episode where his Detroit billboards were defaced by bawdy graffiti.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2024
The Internet Archive's founder, Brewster Kahle, also confirmed the breach and said the website had been defaced with the pop-up through a JavaScript library.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 16 Oct. 2024
That same day, pro-Palestinian activists defaced a Detroit-area house owned by university president Santa Ono, who has sent several messages of support to the Jewish community in recent months, as well as another owned by the university’s chief financial officer.
—Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
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Photos and videos on Sunday showed Assad posters being defaced, statues toppled, and government buildings raided, with crowds gathering in the streets to celebrate the end of the regime.
—Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
Blue splatters of paint have since come to accompany the mural after it was defaced.
—Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
What the 37-year-old rapper is pissed about is that this billboard-sized monument to his greatness was defaced.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
Whoever defaced the Kendrick mural in Compton must be waking up surprised that their scribbling prompted the opening salvo for the record.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
Min has faced a barrage of attacks related to his DUI arrest last year and last month had his campaign signs defaced with anti-Asian slurs.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
The social media reaction was as unhappy as guest star Keegan-Michael Key's Smilin' Jack Furniture Store owner character was in the episode where his Detroit billboards were defaced by bawdy graffiti.
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2024
The Internet Archive's founder, Brewster Kahle, also confirmed the breach and said the website had been defaced with the pop-up through a JavaScript library.
—Theara Coleman, theweek, 16 Oct. 2024
That same day, pro-Palestinian activists defaced a Detroit-area house owned by university president Santa Ono, who has sent several messages of support to the Jewish community in recent months, as well as another owned by the university’s chief financial officer.
—Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defaced
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After the grave was vandalized, Shrewsbury resident Louise Coupland launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise £1,000 for the costs of repairing the stone.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recently, an insurer received a claim that a bear had vandalized a Rolls-Royce; investigators showed security footage of the incident to a wildlife biologist, who determined that the perpetrator was a human in a bear costume.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Some fans say folk purists were booing because Dylan was playing electric, while others say the ruckus was merely over the distorted sound.Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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The clip, with its booming, distorted bass, went viral and quickly racked up almost 9 million uses on the platform.Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
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Thousands more Palestinians have gone missing during the war and much of Gaza has been destroyed.Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Fire officials say that at least seven structures were destroyed.Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Bumpy recovery Exports have been a rare bright spot for the world’s second-largest economy that has been marred with lackluster domestic consumption and a prolonged housing downturn.Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
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Attorneys representing inmates on federal death row have submitted clemency petitions asking for Biden to commute their clients' sentences, with some arguing that their clients had received ineffective legal assistance and had trials marred by racial bias.Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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In the interview, Northam was discussing legislation in Virginia and a hypothetical situation in which a mother’s life was in danger during delivery involving a severely deformed or non-viable fetus.Gabriela Henriquez Stoikow, Miami Herald, 28 June 2024
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In reality, however, the root cause of violence in the Sahel’s apparently lawless areas is neither the absence nor the inefficacy of state institutions but the presence of violent and deformed ones.Nathaniel K. Powell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2016
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One home with a pool was nearly demolished; another was little more than a chimney and a pile of smoldering rubble.Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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After the fatal accident, the state ordered the Orlando Free Fall ride closed and it has since been demolished.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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An extraordinarily valuable racehorse, alone in his stall one night, was fatally injured.GrrlScientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The goal was to to gauge the likelihood and severity of pedestrians being injured or killed at various crash impact speeds and vehicle heights.Tanya Mohn, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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This segmentation allows the system to use an image in which part of the iris is obstructed—for example, by eyelashes, eyelids, or light reflecting off the eye—or when the entire iris is misshapen or damaged, as in more severe cases of postmortem or diseased eyes.Adam Czajka, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Aug. 2019
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Congenital anomalies can include the following, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Heart defects, like missing or misshapen valves.Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Defaced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defaced. Accessed 19 Dec. 2024.
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