Deface /(dē̇*fās")/

imp. & p. p. Defaced; p. pr. & vb. n. Defacing

1. To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.

   So by false learning is good sense defaced.

2. To destroy; to make null. [Obs.]

   [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion.

   For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced].