- (v.t.) To destroy; to make null.
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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