DEFACE

deface. (fr) deface, blot out, staine, bring out of fashion

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deface. Deface, v.t. to disfigure, destroy, erase, blot out

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De‐face″ (dē̍‐fās″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Defaced (–fāst″); p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing.] [[OE. defacen to disfigure, efface, OF. desfacier; L. dis- + facies face. See Face, and cf. Efface.]] 1. 1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record. “This high face defaced.” Emerson.
So by false learning is good sense defaced. Pope. 2. 2. [[Cf. F. défaire.]] To destroy; to make null.
doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. Bacon. For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser. Syn. — See Efface.