deface

大学

vt. 损伤外观 [法] 毁伤外貌, 破坏外观, 涂污

发音

其它 /dɪˈfeɪs/

词形变化

defaced defaces 三单 defaces defacing defacing 现在分词 defaced 过去式 defaced 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

损伤外观，丑化

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.

    1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.

    After the painting was defaced a decade ago, it went viral and has been a tourist attraction ever since.

  2. 2.

    To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.

    He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.

    1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations One-and-twenty worn and defaced shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and defaced too, but seldom so much so.

  3. 3.

    To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

    政治 纹章

    You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

blemish disfigure

上位词 5

spoil mar impair deflower vitiate

下位词 6

mark pit scar maul mangle pock

词源

From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (“to mutilate, destroy, disfigure”), from des- (“away from”) (see dis-) + Late Latin facia.

来源：wiktionary