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To deface something is to spoil how it looks on the outside — writing on it, scratching it, breaking bits off, spraying paint where it does not belong. People deface walls, posters, statues, coins, signs, and book covers. News and the law use it for vandalism; it sounds serious, not like a child doodling in a notebook (though a teacher may still be angry). It is not only about a person's face. The old pieces mean something like take the face away: you ruin the face a thing shows the world. A different word, , is about hurting someone's name with words, not their look.
污損、破壞外觀（牆上亂畫、刮壞表面；臺灣常說污損公物）
組成From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (to mutilate, destroy, disfigure), from des- (away from) + Late Latin facia (face).
同家族的字
- facethe face in deface is the same piece as face: you take the face away
- defacementthe noun for the act, or the damaged look that is left
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
defaceverb/dɪˈfeɪs/
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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.
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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.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesTo alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
- You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。