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defacements

defacements is the plural of defacement.

Meaning of defacement

Noun

defacement (countable and uncountable, plural defacements)

  1. An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
    • Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
  2. An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
    • The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
  3. A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

Questions about defacements

What is defacements the plural of?
Defacements is the plural of defacement.

Words near defacements in the dictionary

  1. def.
  2. deface
  3. defaceable
  4. defaced
  5. defacement
  6. defacements
  7. defacer
  8. defacers
  9. defaces
  10. defacing
  11. defacingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defacements (page history and authors); defacement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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