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Перевод: deface

[глагол]
портить; обезображивать; уродовать; коверкать; искажать; стирать; делать неудобочитаемым; дискредитировать

Тезаурус:

1. We are not free to deface and destroy the natural world.
2. There are many more, and to them have to be added the spores of fungal diseases, always produced in countless millions and ever-present, carried on the wind, ready to take advantage of easily-penetrated soft flabby tissue, a wound or a point of entry perhaps left open by insect damage, to invade, debilitate, deface and even destroy an entire plant.
3. If the little sods want to experiment, that's fair enough; we scatter a widely varied selection of ephemeral matter around the common room for them to browse over or deface - the Daily Express , Lancet , Exchange Mart , Viz that sort of thing.
4. He had been obliged to tell her, of course, that it was an offence to deface a coin of the realm, but he had done as she asked because women brought sentimental tokens to him every day of the week and, anyway, it was only a farthing.
5. Also, more is understood nowadays about the balance of life within a pool, so the much quoted passage of the father of English gardening, William Robinson, in his classic The English Flower Garden (1895) scarcely applies now: "Unclean and ugly pools deface our gardens; some have a mania for artificial water, the effect of water pleasing them so well that they bring it near their houses where they cannot have its good effects.
6. They clutter streets, smother blocks of flats and deface many homes.
7. He prowled around in a simian hunger, searching for things to splatter and deface.
8. When a policeman told her it was an offence to deface her driving licence by stabbing a nailfile through her date of birth, she said she'd rather go to prison.
9. Detractors of Ward's friend and former boss, Graham Taylor, deface the England manager through the primitive superimposition of turnips on his head - but the only object likely to adorn Ward's cranium in York at present is a crown.
10. Dalziel's gaze wandered suspiciously round the room as if seeking signs "that someone had had the effrontery to deface the slightly peeling wall with festive decoration.
11. An attendant warned us not to deface public property.
12. Thus in the sixteenth century there began, by warrant of the king, systematic heraldic visitations with the mandate "to put down or otherwise deface plate, jewels, parchments, windows, gravestones and monuments wheresoever they be set or placed" should those things bear unlawful arms.
13. Instead of examining the truth of his charge that Pakistan deface the ball to increase its swing for Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, they attack Lamb's motives for speaking out.