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Deface vs Demolish - What's the difference?

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Deface is a related term of demolish.


As verbs the difference between deface and demolish

is that deface is to damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner while demolish is to destroy; to destruct.

deface

English

Verb

(defac)
  • To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
  • * 1869:
    • That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
  • To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
    • He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
  • * 1776:
    • One-and-twenty worn and defaced' shillings, however, were considered as equivalent to a guinea, which perhaps, indeed, was worn and ' defaced too, but seldom so much so.
  • (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
    • You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.

    Synonyms

    * (damage in a conspicuous way ): disfigure, mar, obliterate, scar, vandalize * (degrade the face value ): cancel, devalue, nullify, void

    Derived terms

    * defacement

    See also

    * efface

    demolish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To destroy; to destruct.
    • They demolished the old house and put up four townhouses.
  • (figuratively) To utterly defeat.
  • * {{quote-news
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