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Meanings of deface in English
Synonyms
Examples for "damage"
Examples for "damage"
1
Health researchers say living in such conditions can damage young people's health.
2
Not undergoing treatment could damage people's health and even result in deaths.
3
Deep concerns remain about the potential for damage to the economy, however.
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But information commissioner Elizabeth Denham said companies also worried about reputational damage.
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New Ireland authorities are also yet to get full damage assessment reports.
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Another blemish in English historical work has been noticed by the Rev.
2
Your reputation stands high in the world, and is without a blemish.
3
In paintings by Goya or Ghirlandaio people defiantly sport a physical blemish.
4
This is the only blemish upon the fair record of her life.
5
It remained despite her efforts, a blemish on the dim gray heavens.
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But God sent the angel Gabriel to her to disfigure her countenance.
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Tall factory chimneys do not disfigure its silhouette or blacken its walls.
3
His sadness seemed impersonal-itdid not disfigure him, as misery can do.
4
No, children, you haven't wept enough to permanently disfigure your charming faces.
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Like the scars of the healed wound, they disfigure and weaken the soul.
Usage of deface in English
1
It may, they say, simply be graffiti intended to deface holy objects.
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Invisible hands deface his icy statuary; his chisel has lost its cunning.
3
If these operations get to become large-scale, it might deface the moon.
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What wanton and sacrilegious hand has dared deface the work of God?
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It tells our story. Vandals deface Black Panther mural on Crenshaw Blvd.
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She looked considerably older, but age had done nothing to deface her beauty.
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He deliberately tried to weaken and to deface his will; to alter it.
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We didn't deface it; we only printed something on the back of it.
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To deface it in their name seems an odd way to honor them.
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Maybe she was there to make sure I didn't deface anything.
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But Blair is remaking his own image faster than critics can deface it.
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Some began to deface the car and fought with the driver.
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It is inferred that they would deface, because they deface now.
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Trump has threatened decades-long prison terms for those who deface monuments or statues.
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How far Mr. Heneage's commission shall deface me I know not.
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Her revenge on the packagers was to deface the cosmetic image.
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United Kingdom
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