defacement, n.
(defacements)
(defacements)
the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
<noun.act>
defacement disfiguration disfigurement mutilation
sample sentences
"the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion""he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"
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