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defacement

Meaning of "defacement" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DEFACEMENT

dɪˈfeɪsmənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEFACEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Defacement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEFACEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of defacement in the English dictionary

The definition of defacement in the dictionary is the act or an instance of defacing something.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEFACEMENT

abasement · basement · casement · debasement · displacement · effacement · embracement · emplacement · encasement · enlacement · incasement · interlacement · misplacement · outplacement · placement · replacement · retracement · self-abasement · semibasement · subbasement

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEFACEMENT

deface · defaceable · defaced · defacer · defaecate · defaecation · defaecator · defalcate · defalcation · defalcator · defamation · defamatorily · defamatory · defame · defamer · defang · defast · defaste · defat · default

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEFACEMENT

abonnement · achievement · advertisement · agreement · amusement · announcement · apartment · arrangement · element · enforcement · engagement · implement · improvement · infringement · management · measurement · movement · requirement · retirement · statement · supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of defacement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DEFACEMENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «defacement» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «defacement» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DEFACEMENT

Find out the translation of defacement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of defacement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «defacement» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

污损
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

desfiguración
570 millions of speakers
en

English

defacement
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

विकरण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تشويه
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

порчу
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

defacement
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সৌন্দর্যহানিতা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

dégradation
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Penipuan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Verunstaltung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

汚損
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

오손
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Defacement
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hủy hoại
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

defacement
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

डिफेसेमेंट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

silinti
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

deturpazione
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

oszpecenie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

порчу
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

desfigurare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μουντζούρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skending
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förvanskning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

defacement
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of defacement

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEFACEMENT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of defacement
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «defacement».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about defacement

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEFACEMENT»

Discover the use of defacement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to defacement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
"This volume [which asks what happens when something precious is despoiled] is vintage Taussig. . .
Michael T. Taussig, 1999
2
The Mutilating God: Authorship and Authority in the ...
Insofar as this process involves the conferring of a figurative mask, it also involves a defacement or disfiguration of the very experience it seeks to represent. "How can this harmless veil [of language]," de Man asks, "suddenly become as deadly ...
Gerald Peters, 1993
3
Plantations and Death Camps: Religion, Ideology, and Human ...
Defacement can be a violent expression of sin. History has shown that we ignore or deny the significance of the face, the body, the temple of the Holy Spirit, at our own peril. The range of acts that can be classified as defacement extends from ...
Beverly Eileen Mitchell
4
101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving
The person receiving that word then might write down “defacement.” This person then has two notes containing the words “destruction” and “defacement.” They read these words aloud to the other group members and the group uses them to  ...
Arthur B. VanGundy, 2008
5
Understanding JCT Standard Building Contracts
Defacement. Many clerks of works are in the habit of using chalk or wax crayon to deface work or materials which they consider to be defective. In this they are sometimes encouraged by the architect and the contractor himself.
David Chappell, 2003
6
Global Information Warfare: How Businesses, Governments, and ...
Web Defacement Location Defaced Web Site International United States United Kingdom China Republic of Indonesia Greece UNICEF Amnesty International The White House CIA Department of Justice NASA The Pentagon New York Times ...
Andrew Jones, Andy Jones, Gerald L. Kovacich, 2002
7
Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade
Paradoxically, the act of iconoclasm—while apparently a kind of visual defacement that effaces the memory of the destroyed—may nonetheless preserve the memory of the condemned in the very act of obliteration.13 We have to place the ...
Robert S. Nelson, Margaret Olin, 2004
8
Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary ...
This pattern of defacement is likewise visible in nearly all surviving Images of Pity from England, which are similarly scored through the texts of their indulgences, with pen marks that sometimes concentrate only on the final word, "pardon" (see  ...
Jennifer Summit, 2000
9
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and ...
In fact, there are numerous other attack payloads that may be delivered via any type of XSS vulnerability. Virtual Defacement This attack involves injecting malicious data into a page of a web application to feed misleading information to users ...
Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto, 2011
10
George Orwell: The Politics of Literary Reputation
Bergson's elan vital into a direct-action politics ("Bergsonism") before World War I , the abuse of Sorel by Stalin and Mussolini: all these are demonstrable examples of defacement. In Part Two we will explore further how Orwell has suffered ...
John Rodden, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEFACEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term defacement is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Finland enlists convicted Lizard Squad hacker to fight cyber crime
The defacement of the Malaysia Airlines website in January was also purportedly the work of Lizard Squad. The defaced site made reference to ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
2
ASI upset with love birds leaving their mark on Taj trees | Agra …
... could attract stringent punishment for defacement, hardly any action is ... Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, defacement attracts a fine of ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
3
Are cemeteries a new front in Worcester street-gang wars?
District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said officers are now investigating another matter at Hope Cemetery – the degradation and defacement of ... «Worcester Telegram, Jul 15»
4
South Carolina Senate Votes to Remove Confederate Battle Flag
Newsome and James Tyson, who helped her, could spend up to three years in prison for the defacement of state property, although such a ... «Care2.com, Jul 15»
5
Rock Island police report for July 4, 2015
V-(Business, Agency, Organization) FAMILY DOLLAR Report by : BRADLEY, A. M. Offense/s Listed: CRIMINAL DEFACEMENT. 2015-008138 ... «Quad-Cities Online, Jul 15»
6
Mumbai: Rate of prosecution in illegal hoarding cases is abysmally …
Records obtained from the civic licence department show in January this year, FIRs under the Maharashtra Prevention of Defacement of ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jul 15»
7
PPSC website defaced
The defacement comes after the Philippine government released a 2-part documentary regarding the South China Sea dispute. «ABS CBN News, Jul 15»
8
A 2nd monument to Confederacy defaced in Va.'s capital city
Police are investigating the defacement. The monument in the city's Libby Hill neighborhood overlooks the James River. The Jefferson Davis ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
9
Hackney Wick graffiti artist Mobstr records 'Red' battle with Tower …
'The council is developing an anti-defacement policy that recognises that high quality street art can benefit our communities and enhance the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
Man who defaced Jefferson Davis monument pleads guilty; get 100 …
The defacement of Davis' statue was part of the spectrum of reactions in Richmond and across the country to the mass shootings last month in ... «The Daily Progress, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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