Deface

v. t.	1.	To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. [imp. & p. p. Defaced (dė*fāst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing.] So by false learning is good sense defaced. - Pope.
	2.	To destroy; to make null. [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. - Bacon. For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. - Spenser.

Verb	1.	deface - mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue" Synonyms: blemish, disfigure
	2.	deface - deface a building facade, for example

batter, blemish, blot, check, cicatrize, contort, crack, craze, deform, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, flaw, harm, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, mangle, misshape, offend, offend the eye, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, split, truncate, twist, uglify, warp, wreck

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