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Found 3 hits - Term: defaced, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
deface \deface"\ d-ef=as", v. t. imp.  p. p. defaced
   d-ef=ast"; 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.
      1913 webster

            so by false learning is good sense defaced. --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. cf. f. d'efaire. to destroy; to make null. obs.
      1913 webster

            profane scoffing doth . . . deface the reverence
            of religion.                          --bacon.
      1913 webster

            for all his power was utterly defaste defaced.
                                                  --spenser.

   syn: see efface.
        1913 webster
see also:
defaced defacing face efface 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
defaced \defaced\ adj.
   having the external appearance impaired, usually
   deliberately.

   syn: marred.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
defaced
     adj : having the surface damaged or disfigured syn: marred
see also:
marred 

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