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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vandalise . - adjective Referring to something that has been struck by vandalism
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Examples
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Kant said the "vandalised" painting was "hanging and sagging" and there were numerous gashes at the bottom.
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"vandalised" South African roads by overloading their trucks.
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They broke through the gate and vandalised property.
Arundhati Roy's home besieged by protesters Owen Bowcott 2010
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In Deraa buildings have been set on fire and vandalised, and the city has been cordoned off by troops.
Syria: Four killed in Deraa as protests spread across south 2011
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Her garden fence had been vandalised, she diles 999 to report it, and local Plod take three hours to turn up, so she makes an official complaint.
Police Complaints – The Shocking Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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A 17th-century painting by Nicolas Poussin was vandalised at the National Gallery in London after a 57-year-old man reportedly sprayed it with red paint before being arrested by police.
Man held after Poussin painting is vandalised at National Gallery 2011
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Your sculpture on Aldeburgh beach has been vandalised several times.
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Winner told the Observer the planned changes amounted to "disgraceful mutilation" and said it was "absolutely typical of how beautiful areas of London are going to be vandalised".
Fury grows over Burlington Arcade renovation as shopkeeper faces eviction 2011
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Those who looted, vandalised and terrorised in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham were in a tiny minority.
From top to bottom we need a new ethic of responsibility | Observer editorial 2011
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The commission, a flying naked angel inspired by the British Museum's Assyrian figures, was finally unveiled in 1914, surviving intact until the early 1960s, when the angel was vandalised, its genitals hacked off and stolen.
Oscar Wilde's lipstick-covered Paris tomb to be protected 2011
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