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are defaced
verb
To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
Exact(16)
Though for decades the murals remained in excellent condition, they now are defaced in places by prisoner graffiti.
The Canadian flags that fly above the crab boats have been hoisted upside down, and some are defaced with swastikas.
"This will drastically help A.T.F. in tracing firearms with serial numbers that are defaced or obliterated," Agent Green said.
But opponents contend that the narrow valleys nearby are defaced and their streams effectively ruined by excess fill.
Soft-core-porn nudes are overlaid with roses or cameras or home appliances, ads are defaced with smeared lipstick, and so forth.
Boarded up, burned-out structures that are defaced with graffiti stand alongside newly renovated apartment complexes with glass elevators and rooftop gardens.
Similar(44)
"We are guiding people who are defacing society," she said.
The news now from inside Iraq is that people are defacing pictures of Saddam with graffiti.
Kiosks have been defaced.
It was defaced.
It's not being defaced.
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