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• n  the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
  the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion

• Powderly has called his laser tag device a "weapon of mass defacement.
• Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monuments importance.
• The aerosol paint can is science's contribution to the ancient art of public defacement, and the vacant-minded or vicious are taking to it in ever-increasing numbers -- gleefully .

• disfigurement
• disfiguration

News & Articles

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• Debevoise Scores for Kate Spade in 'Saturday' Trademark Fight
  A winner has finally emerged in a fight over upscale casual wear that featured claims of "swagger-jacking" and social media defacement.
  June 19, 2013 - Law.com
• Rockford police arrest 2 for graffiti
  Rockford police have arrested two men for criminal defacement of property.
  June 14, 2013 - WREX-TV Rockford

Quotes

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• Neil Finn in Sydney Morning Herald
  The origin of the moustache is probably the only interesting part of the story,Finn adds. "There was a poster across the road [from the studio] and it got defaced early on, a really nice defacement with a curly moustache, and I thought the...
• Randy David in Inquirer.net
  Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Randy David, whose face was depicted and defaced in the painting, said "the defacement has become the very reminder of the violence committed against freedom of the press in the Philippines."
• Pierre Restany in San Francisco Chronicle
  Sociology comes to the rescue of consciousness and chance,Restany wrote, "whether with a choice of poster defacement, the look of an object, household garbage or salon scraps, the unleashing of mechanical affectivity, the diffusion of...