defacement
noun/dɪˈfeɪsmənt/
Etymology From deface + -ment.
1
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
- Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
2
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
- The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
- Synonyms
- disfiguration, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism, cancellation, devaluation