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To vandalize something is to damage or destroy it on purpose. The thing damaged is nearly always something you do not own — a car, a shop, a bus shelter, a grave, a website. It is a transitive verb: something must follow it, so ‘they vandalized the school’, never ‘they vandalized’ alone. You meet it most often in the passive, because the person who did it is unknown: ‘the playground has been vandalized again’. British writing usually spells it vandalise with an s; American writing uses the z; both are correct, just pick one and stay with it. The word carries anger and judgement — it is not a neutral way to say ‘broke’. That is why it gets borrowed in arguments: people say a building was vandalized by a bad renovation, or that a Wikipedia page was vandalized when someone wrote nonsense in it.
（故意）毀損、破壞（公物或他人財物）
組成vandal (‘a destroyer’, from the ancient Germanic people) + -ize, the ending that turns a noun into a verb meaning ‘act like that / make into that’. The -ize ending itself travelled a long way: Ancient Greek -ίζω → Late Latin -izō → French -iser → English.
原始詞典資料1 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。
vandalizeverb/ˈvændəlaɪz/
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American, Canadian, and Oxford British English standard spelling of vandalise.
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。