| Deface 1. (v. t.) 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. 2. (v. t.) To destroy; to make null. Thesaurus Entries batter, blemish, blot, check, cicatrize, contort, crack, craze, damage, deform, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, disfigure, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, flaw, harm, impair, injure, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, mangle, mar, misshape, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, split, spoil, truncate, twist, uglify, warp, wreck |