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Gang members defaced businesses, schools, parks, churches, and public walls with graffiti.

Imagine how devastating it would have been had the stonework itself been defaced and left in ruins — a universal, visual trope for civilization’s collapse.

At the event in 2018, one water pipe control system, likely used for a commercial building, had its computer screen defaced with graffiti-type messages.

Alas, they have little time to contemplate their momentous finding before their lighting equipment fails and, in the ensuing darkness, they are set upon by an assailant who knocks Henry out, kidnaps Totel and defaces the mural.

There they denounced a statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general, defaced it, toppled it with ropes and chains and set it ablaze.

After sneaking in under the cover of night, the vandals chose these symbols to deface.

It was as if Romney had lit his résumé on fire, and had returned to Boston to deface his gubernatorial portrait.

I am famous practise; for there is scarcely a day when I do not deface God's noblest work for others, or they for me.

Even the necessary filth of commerce cannot destroy, or scarcely deface the beauty of the country.

They are the last we shall give to show the extreme wildness and extravagance which deface the drama of Festus.

Nor was I willing to deface the pages of the work with explanatory notes.

In the sultry season of 1783, honey-dews were so frequent as to deface and destroy the beauties of my garden.