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deface

verb begrime, blacken, blemish, blot, blot out, blotch, blur, cover up, crack, cross out, damage, deform, delete, deprive of form, despoil, destroy, destroy form, disfigure, distort, efface, erase, expunge, flaw, foedare, foul, hurt, impair, impair the legibility of, impair the looks of, injure, make illegible, make ugly, make unsightly, mangle, mar, mar the appearance of, mark, misshape, mutilate, render illegible, rub off, rub out, scar, scratch, scratch out, smear, smudge, soil, spoil, spoil the look of, spot, stain, strike out, sully, tarnish, unshape, warp, wipe away
Associated concepts: cancellation by defacing, defacing pubbic property

See also: damage, destroy, efface, harm, impair, maim, mutilate, spoil, sully, tarnish

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Hackers threaten to deface more websites if Dhoni's image is circulated.

Indian hackers take MSD troll revenge

As reported by Chapola (2012), the leaders of the "I deface you" movement have stated that, more than simply defacing the material on display, the goal was to secure a significant reduction in the amount of political propaganda on the streets.

"You deface my city, I deface you": the practice of defacing political posters/"Voce suja minha cidade, eu sujo sua cara": praticas de escrita urbana sobre a propaganda eleitoral

As chair of the conservation trust, I cannot put my name to something that will deface Birmingham's heritage.

Venus de Milo in mini skirt storm

In reality, just a few thousand sites were defaced - one of which was that of Zone-H, the site that had the task of recording the sites that the hackers managed to deface.

Poor results for hacker competition

They maintain that banks were previously warned about all the security flaws but since banks' staff don't seem to be serious with the warnings and hence hackers have no point but to deface their websites.

Web hacking in Pakistan on the up

The instructions we gave to people on how to deface posters were ridiculously detailed.

RACY AD ATTACK 'WAS A HOAX' Islamic group deny vandalism

He has also been able to wait for the moments when the palaces are not obscured by the parked cars, vans and trailers with which the Italians deface the narrow street of their historic towns.

Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time

And then he thought, Why not deface the Comelec website?

Boredom made me do it, says Comelec hacker

Two House leaders are calling for investigations into how hackers managed to access and deface government websites this past Wednesday.

Lawmakers demand investigation into hacking

I have more respect for a cockroach that crawls out at night than for a gang member who crawls out from his dark hole to deface a freeway sign.

PUBLIC FORUM

To deface the Cenotaph and the statue of Winston Churchill is simply beneath contempt.

May Day Riots

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