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What does deface mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word deface? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
  2. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
  3. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
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If it is too condemnatory, he fears somebody will deface it. All this is the latest step in a delicate re-examination of Polish-Jewish relations.
The Act also covers persons who knowingly or wilfully destroy, deface or conceal from the Revenue any documents.
If you deface and wreck your countryside with dirty great turbines it is obvious that you will turn visitors away.
In his country, Kazakhstan, it is illegal to insult the man or to deface his image.
We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti.
The defacement competition challenges crackers to deface as many as 6,000 sites in the shortest time possible to win the contest.

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