Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun defacement

1 sense of defacement

Sense 1
defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration -- (the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape")
       => damage, harm, hurt, scathe -- (the act of damaging something or someone)