0 present participle of deface
1 to damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing or drawing on it:
But most cases of vandalism, such as defacing a wall, wrecking the windows of a bus shelter, or wrecking an occupied council flat, are purposeless.
I understand it is not a question of defacing the bottle.
The vehicles will thus remain, defacing the countryside or blocking the bridlepaths.
The trouble is that a large segment of the public almost certainly does not realise that defacing or removing signs constitutes an offence.
Unfortunately, at present there are huge stocks of coal defacing the landscape.
There is no penalty provided, although in the next clause a penalty is provided for defacing bank notes.
Is it defacing the future to take them over as a national service and not defacing it to take them over as a public utility?
Defacing buildings may also be an offence under local authority byelaws.
