defaced

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But since paradise was defaced, and the rivers that watered it turned another way, this hath done so too.

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  • In a few days they would all be torn down, defaced, and burnt. —  EQMM, June 2005
  • It is also written that when he entered Constantinople and saw the damage his soldiers had done—the buildings they had defaced, the churches they had defiled, and the citizens they had slain—he wept for the beautiful city. —  The Historian
  • It is a cartoon (much defaced, and here and there re- touched by clumsy Chinese hands) of The First Sin. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • A large volume of biographies of literary ladies of all countries, executed in America and sent over to France by enthusiastic friends, was torn, defaced, and here and there adorned with flourishing moustaches! —  In a Walled Garden
  • The CTA said its records show four ads were defaced, and it's on the lookout for vandalism at the North Side garage where the buses carrying the posters are housed. —  Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM
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