Deface

(verb.) mar or spoil the appearance of; 'scars defaced her cheeks'; 'The vandals disfigured the statue'.

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• He might as well have attempted to deface the moon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Yet none of the defaced human forms which I distinguished, could be Raymond; so I turned my eyes away, while my heart sickened within me. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• At length they came back into the town; and, turning into an old public-house with a defaced sign-board, ordered some dinner by the kitchen fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He had been evidently thrown from his horse by some falling ruin, which had crushed his head, and defaced his whole person. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But though very much defaced, its value has been kept up by that of the gold coin, for which it is exchanged. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For quickly the fair proportion of this edifice would be more defaced, than are the sand-choked ruins of the desert temples of Palmyra. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• For though, before the late recoinage, the gold coin was a good deal defaced too, it was less so than the silver. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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