defacement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something. countable,uncountable
    — Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
  2. An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value. countable,uncountable
    — The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
  3. A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another. countable,uncountable

词形变化

defacements plural

词源

Etymology tree
English deface
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English defacement
From deface + -ment.
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