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  • verb Present participle of graffiti.

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Examples

  • He spent his childhood graffitiing his name on all the ugly buildings—you know, as a way of reclaiming the city for himself.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • He spent his childhood graffitiing his name on all the ugly buildings—you know, as a way of reclaiming the city for himself.

    Kiss & Break Up Kate Kingsley 2010

  • He'd endured bullying at a school where learning took a distant seventh place to tormenting teachers, demolishing ancient and nearly useless equipment, graffitiing every available inch, shagging birds on the stairwells, setting fires in the dust bins, and pinching everything from the third formers 'sweets money to the Christmas collection taken each year to give a decent meal to the area's homeless drunks.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • Since his days of legally graffitiing the Champs Elysées with his "sidewalk galleries" - photographs he pasted on to walls and then framed with an aerosol can - JR's work has been deliberately disruptive and provocative.

    The Guardian World News Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • The protest face of the movement is dominated by younger activists who are waging a wider civil disobedience campaign that includes dozens of less visible tactics, from commercial boycotts to wearing green en masse at televised sports events and graffitiing slogans on surfaces ranging from buses to banknotes.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • It was after this that some of the more random chaos took place: the rooftop occupation and graffitiing of the Palace Pier ice cream shop wasn't claimed as a bit of vegan direct action but more of a case of youthful high spirits.

    SchNEWS - Weekly direct action newsletter and party and protest guide 2009

  • It was after this that some of the more random chaos took place: the rooftop occupation and graffitiing of the Palace Pier ice cream shop wasn't claimed as a bit of vegan direct action but more of a case of youthful high spirits.

    SchNEWS - Weekly direct action newsletter and party and protest guide 2009

  • The protest face of the movement is dominated by younger activists who are waging a wider civil disobedience campaign that includes dozens of less visible tactics, from commercial boycotts to wearing green en masse at televised sports events and graffitiing slogans on surfaces ranging from buses to banknotes.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2009

  • Our parties consisted of graffitiing the walls, creating our own instruments and slamming poetry alongside political monologues.

    Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2008

  • It was fun to do, and I always loved graffitiing, but I didn’t want to get in trouble.

    Copy Cat Jacque Nimble 2010

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