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  • verb Present participle of vandalise.
  • verb Alternative spelling of vandalizing.

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Examples

  • Responding to accusations that some groups were excluded from the SDF Radebe said: "Those groups excluded themselves because they are involved in criminal activities such as vandalising Eskom property and illegal reconnection of electricity".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • "Gold has a precious and desirable quality about it, doesn't it?" quips the British mixed media artist Graeme Brusby, 36, who is currently "vandalising" one of the boundary walls at the British Council driveway on KG Marg.

    Top Headlines 2010

  • Opinion, Editorial and Reader Comments i know we have a global meltdown / elections to deal with … but the auckland city council are screwing-up / 'vandalising'. .again ..!

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • i know we have a global meltdown / elections to deal with … but the auckland city council are screwing-up / 'vandalising'. .again ..!

    whoar.co.nz 2008

  • "vandalising" at least one London taxi - with his art.

    TODAYonline 2008

  • Then, because we netted, polluted, hunted down their feeding grounds, killed everything we touched, built salmon farms and generally acted like vandalising scum, they disappeared.

    Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever 2011

  • What are they busy doing, I wonder, that is keeping them from the drunks fighting, vandalising, trespassing and – and worse – endangering the lives of the residents of our block?

    Whatcha gotta do to make them come to you? Tyler 2009

  • His decorations are broken bottles, mostly 7-Up and Canada Dry green; old crockery collected for him by local children when they weren't vandalising his work and tiles.

    Watts Towers: LA's weird masterpiece 2011

  • The government said "armed gangs" with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades were vandalising public and private property in Hama, attacking police stations, erecting barricades and burning tyres.

    Syria: 100 die in crackdown as Assad sends in his tanks 2011

  • Then, because we netted, polluted, hunted down their feeding grounds, killed everything we touched, built salmon farms and generally acted like vandalising scum, they disappeared.

    Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever 2011

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