Synonyms of the word

deface

• v. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
• v. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
• v. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

blemish

• n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
• n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
• v. To spoil the appearance of.
• v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

deflower

• v. (transitive) To take the virginity of (somebody), especially a woman or girl.

disfigure

• v. Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

impair

• v. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
• adj. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate.

mangle

• v. (transitive) To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To wring laundry.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier…
• n. A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
• n. The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
• n. mangrove (tree).

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

mutilate

• v. To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such…
• v. To destroy beyond recognition.
• v. (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
• adj. (obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
• adj. (zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.

spoil

• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
• v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
• v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
• v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
• v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
• v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
• n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
• n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.