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were defaced
verb
To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
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His real-estate signs were defaced.
Some of the weapons' serial numbers were defaced.
At least six high-profile United States sites were defaced, apparently by Chinese hackers.
When his campaign posters were defaced with swastikas and racist graffiti — "Dirty Arab" — he ignored it.
Soon after, several Holocaust memorials were defaced or vandalised and a Jewish cemetery was desecrated.
Our campuses and civic spaces were defaced by ziggurats of cement.
Similar(8)
"I thought we were defacing art," he said.
In Portland, officials said taggers from other communities were defacing their property.
Kiosks have been defaced.
It was defaced.
It's not being defaced.
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