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de·face (d

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tr.v. de·faced, de·fac·ing, de·fac·es

1. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure.

2. To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of.

3. Obsolete To obliterate; destroy.

[Middle English defacen, from Old French desfacier : des-, de- + face, face; see face.]

de·facea·ble adj.

de·facement n.

de·facer n.

Translations

defaced [dɪˈfeɪst] adj [voucher, document] → raturé(e)

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blemish daub deface deflower dirty disfeature disfigure Dusken foul ha-ha haw-haw impair mangle mar marked-up maul pock scar spoil			The faces, shriveled and defaced, bore no likeness to the faces of men. The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context This was the trunk of a large wooden doll, which once stared with the roundest of eyes above the reddest of cheeks; but was now entirely defaced by a long career of vicarious suffering. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,--just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the barroom of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context			deer mushroom deer tick deer trail deer's-ear deer's-ears Deer's-tongue Deer-neck Deerberry Deere Deerfield Beach deergrass deerhound Deerlet deerskin deerstalker deerstalking deeryard Dees Deesis Deess deet Deev def def. deface defaced Defacement Defacer defaecate Defail Defailance Defailure defalcate defalcation Defalcator Defalk defamation defamatory defame Defamer Defamingly Defamous defang defat Defatigable Defatigate Defatigation default default judgement default judgment default on			DEF index DEF index DEF index DEF index DEF index DEF index Def Jam Fight for New York Def Jam Records Def Jam South Def Jam Vendetta Def Leppard Def Leppard DEF MAINT DEF rate DEF rate DEF rate DEF rate DEF rate Def, Mos DEF-STAN def. def. DEFA DEFAC deface deface deface deface with defaceable defaceable defaced defacement defacement defacements defacements defacer defacer defacers defacers defaces defaces defacilitation defacing defacing Defackating Defackating Defackating Defacto Defacto Defacto Defacto Defacto defaecate defaecate defaecated defaecated defaecates defaecates Defaecating Defaecating Defaecating

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