0 to damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing or drawing on it: --
1 to intentionally spoil the appearance of something by writing on or marking it: --
There are more of the works of man which deface the beauty of nature than open-cast coal working.
The trouble is that a large segment of the public almost certainly does not realise that defacing or removing signs constitutes an offence.
The vehicles will thus remain, defacing the countryside or blocking the bridlepaths.
We are told that here little boys would deface them, but if they do, it is largely because of the example that is set them.
I understand it is not a question of defacing the bottle.
A gang of children, in their early teens, defaces and vandalises newly planted trees.
On all trunk roads to replace those directional signs showing place names which have been deliberately defaced.
It was sickening to see those men sticking two fingers up to the society that they had defaced.