Defames vs Defaces - What's the difference?
defames | defaces |
(defame)
To harm or diminish the reputation of.
To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
* Dryden
To publish a libel about.
(archaic) To charge; to accuse.
* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
(deface)
To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
* 1869:
To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
* 1776:
(heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
As verbs the difference between defames and defaces
is that defames is (defame) while defaces is (deface).defames
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(head)defame
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(defam)- to defame somebody
- My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
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(head)deface
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(defac)- That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
- He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
- 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.
- You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.