adjective
- having the surface damaged, spoiled, or marked in a way that reduces beauty or legibility
Usage: past participle of ‘deface’ used as adjective
Examples
- The defaced statue had graffiti spray-painted across its base.
- Police found several defaced campaign posters along the street.
- The library book was so defaced that many pages were unreadable.
- Vandals left the monument defaced with crude drawings.
- The defaced currency was rejected by the bank teller.
- Workers cleaned the defaced wall after the protest.