Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of deface.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. having the external appearance impaired, usually deliberately.
Examples
“His mother — her bones scattered — her name defaced — her rest annulled!”
“The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object.”
The Guardian: A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best
“The charities told the paper that in the past, they removed labels and "defaced" any fake trademarks before distributing the clothes, and they pointed out that the donations helped save them--and therefore the city--money.”
NYC Police Dept Stops Giving Counterfeit Clothing To Charity - The Consumerist
“This fact can be attested to by the presence, in cities like San Francisco where graffiti is common, of illegally-painted murals executed with 30 cans of spray paint, dozens of oil paint sticks or markers loaded with artist-mixed inks, which have themselves been "defaced" by simple spray-paint or Sharpie tags.”
“I don't understand the motives behind the people who "defaced" the stain, though.”
“Besides, every true book lover knows that in three hundred years, what was "defaced" becomes "historical.”
“The Charter also authorised the Company to use a distinctive flag, indicating the British character of the undertaking, and the one adopted, following the example of the English Colonies, is the British flag, "defaced," as it is termed, with the Company's badge -- a lion.”
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
“I read it as a kind of defaced romance; very thin and lean, but all true, and very marvelous as such.”
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
“Last night it was reported that Lady Gaga arrived in Tokyo with a "defaced" Hermes Birkin bag tattooed with Japanese text.”
“A letter signed by 27 members of the architectural faculty at the University of Washington warned that the city's skyline would be "defaced" and "become a billboard for privileged corporations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘defaced’.
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Noteworthy Words
Here I have in mind a list of words that could be spelled with only the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, and G--and thus could also be played as a tune on the piano.
face, ace, bag, cage, bad, fad, fade, fee, gee, beg, fed, deaf and 98 more...
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Words That Can Be Typed Entirely With...
Words made of the following: qwertasdfgzxcvb. I've stood on the shoulders of giants... users mollusque and reesetee made similar lists before I even existed on Wordnik. :)
stewardesses, red tea, waves, axes, wrest, qat, waver, created, dressed, stress, crater, vexes and 50 more...
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What Is the Sound of One Hand Typing?
Words you can type with one hand--if you learned how to type formally. Hunt-and-peck method doesn't count. ;-) I'm keeping it to five or more letters to avoid an excessively lengthy list.
<...racecar, start, create, desert, dessert, secret, secrete, sweet, tresses, poppy, puppy, homonym and 141 more...
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You Broke It!
After the school bully breaks your new yo-yo, you can use these words to describe it. All hail the carnage!
broken, faulty, slipshod, weak, destroyed, dismantled, busted, cracked, chipped, bent, shattered, irreparable and 147 more...
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Notably Unique
Words that are in the record books, or otherwise attract comment.
pneumonoultramicr..., set, misconjugatedly, uncopyrightables, tesseradecades, hypolimnion., teetertotter, aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, aegilops, antiskepticism, bababadalgharaght... and 72 more...
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oroboros The longest common word spelled with hexadecimal letters; also, the longest common word spelled with piano notes.
--Chris Cole, Wordplay (See comment under "Wordplay List".) May 24, 2008