Deface

Verb

 * 1) To damage something in a visible or conspicuous manner.
 * 2) * 1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal
 * That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
 * 1) To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
 * He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
 * 1) * 1776: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
 * 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.

Synonyms for Deface

 * (damage in a conspicuous way): disfigure, mar, obliterate, scar, vandalize
 * (degrade the face value): cancel, devalue, nullify, void
 * deform, injure, mark, blemish, damage, mutilate, spoil, erase, obliterate, impair, destroy, maim, efface.

Antonyms for Deface
beautify, bedeck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, ornament, deck, array.

Derived terms

 * defacement

Thesaurus
batter, blemish, blot, check, cicatrize, contort, crack, craze, damage, deform, demolish, destroy, dilapidate, disfigure, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, flaw, harm, impair, injure, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, mangle, mar, misshape, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, split, spoil, truncate, twist, uglify, warp, wreck

Etymology
de- + face

Translations

 * Bulgarian: обезобразявам, дискредитирам
 * Finnish: ,