deface

Etymology
From, from , , from (see ) +.

Verb

 * 1) To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
 * 2) * 1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal
 * That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
 * 1) To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.
 * He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
 * 1) * 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 * One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.
 * 1)  To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
 * You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.
 * You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.

Synonyms

 * (damage in a conspicuous way): disfigure, mar, obliterate, scar, vandalize
 * (degrade the face value): cancel, devalue, nullify, void

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: poničit, počmárat
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Irish: loit
 * Italian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: بوزمق


 * Finnish: