deface
    v 1: mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks";
         "The vandals disfigured the statue" [syn: deface,
         disfigure, blemish]

Deface \De*face"\ (d[-e]*f[=a]s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defaced
   (d[-e]*f[=a]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing.] [OE. defacen
   to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face.
   See Face, and cf. Efface.]
   1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to
      disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or
      obliterating important features or portions of; as, to
      deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface
      writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a
      record. "This high face defaced." --Emerson.
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            So by false learning is good sense defaced. --Pope.
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   2. [Cf. F. d['e]faire.] To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]
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            [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence
            of religion.                          --Bacon.
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            For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].
                                                  --Spenser.

   Syn: See Efface.
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