defacement
(noun)
noun
1. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
- the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
Similar word(s): disfiguration, disfigurement, mutilation
Definition categories: act, damage, harm, hurt, scathe
Sentences with defacement as a noun:
- Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
- The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.