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Suffering vs Defacement - What's the difference?

suffering | defacement | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between suffering and defacement

is that suffering is the condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress while defacement is an act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.

As an adjective suffering

is experiencing pain.{{jump|experiencing pain}} singular.

As a verb suffering

is present participle of lang=en.

suffering

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Experiencing pain.(jump)

    • Synonyms

    * (jump) in pain

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.
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    Verb

    (head)

    • defacement

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of defacing]]; an instance of visibly marring or [[disfigure, disfiguring something.
    • Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
  • 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.
  • (heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.

    • Usage notes

    * Defacement generally has negative valence (that is, it is a bad thing), except in heraldry, where it is a neutral term.

    Synonyms

    * (act of defacing ): disfiguration, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism * (nullification of face value ): cancellation, devaluation