"vandalise" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to intentionally damaging or destroying public property or personal property. Example sentence: The vandals vandalised the public park and destroyed the park benches.
"We got into a confrontation with a guy who was deliberately trying to vandalise a police car and was just making it worse of a situation than it needed to be".
Like it or not, the tyre-slasher on the Crumlin Road had nothing to gain from his bid to vandalise a heavily armoured police vehicle while dodging plastic bullets and jets of water.
The area is heavily policed with floodlit observation posts and army checkpoints, plus settler vigilantes who routinely vandalise, and sometimes burn, Palestinian properties.In immediate reprisal for the ambush, the Israeli army razed several Palestinian houses on the site.
Many files containing classified information are compromised.1999 Kosovo: Chinese hackers break in and vandalise American government websites in retaliation for the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by American aircraft.
Even the beleagured Nick Clegg can enjoy a few days when the behaviour of his fiercest opponents, and not the splits in his own crumbling party, are the main story.Finally, a word of free public-relations advice to the student protestors from someone who thinks they actually have a reasonable case: try not to vandalise war monuments.
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At first sight, the wheelie stunts in The Grand Tour look like a bid to culturally out-vandalise LeBlanc.
On a number of occasions the play area had been vandalised.
The victims' commissioner, Lady Newlove, whose husband, Garry, was killed by a gang vandalising his car, said: "I'm appalled by this disgraceful act of violence – my thoughts go out to the victim's family and friends at this time.
They were made by WI members across the country, after Brown launched a Twitter campaign when the memorial was vandalised by anti-austerity protesters last month.
The next day it was looted, property vandalised and equipment taken.
