English-Finnish translations for defacement

• lisäys
  Pöytäkirja voitiin hyväksyä tekstiin tehdyn pienen lisäyksen jälkeen
  Meille on tulossa perheeseen lisäystä.
• mitätöinti
• turmeleminen

Definition of defacement

• An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something
• An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value
• A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another

Synonyms

• disfiguration
• graffiti
• obliteration
• vandalism
• cancellation
• devaluation

Examples

• Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napoleans campaigns.
• The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.

Related words

• deface
• defacing
• defacer