"defacement" in the noun sense
1. defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration, mutilation
the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
"the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"
"he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"
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