Defaces is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 149 anagrams from letters in defaces (acdeefs).
1275-1325; Middle English defacen Old French desfacier, equivalent to des- dis-1 + facier (face face + -ier infinitive suffix)
It was as if Romney had lit his résumé on fire, and had returned to Boston to deface his gubernatorial portrait.
Don't you know it's against the regulations to deface any natural object in the park?
But if it's the truth, again, you have no right to deface the beauty.
Now the sun gilds the slides that furrow, but do not deface them.
And they are features which will deface the best story ever told.
Lumps of hardened glue will hinder you and deface your work.
Take it up carefully so not to splinter it and deface the flooring.
It is probably a tattoo mark, the same as all sailors like to deface their bodies with.
After sneaking in under the cover of night, the vandals chose these symbols to deface.
The eager handling by every member of the family cannot soil or deface the cover.
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