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Is deface a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word deface is a Scrabble US word. The word deface is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is deface a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word deface is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Is deface a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word deface is a Words With Friends word. The word deface is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

DEFACE,

5-letter words (3 found)

CADEE,DECAF,FACED,

4-letter words (10 found)

ACED,CADE,CAFE,CEDE,DACE,DEAF,ECAD,FACE,FADE,FEED,

3-letter words (11 found)

ACE,CAD,CAF,CEE,DAE,DEE,DEF,FAD,FAE,FED,FEE,

2-letter words (10 found)

AD,AE,DA,DE,EA,ED,EE,EF,FA,FE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 36 words from deface according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of deface

deface

Etymology

From Middle English defacen, from Old French defacier, desfacier (“to mutilate, destroy, disfigure”), from des- (“away from”) (see dis-) + Late Latin facia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪˈfeɪs/, /diːˈfeɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Verb

deface (third-person singular simple present defaces, present participle defacing, simple past and past participle defaced)

  1. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
    • 1869: George Eliot, The Legend of Jubal
      That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.
  2. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of.
    He defaced the I.O.U. notes by scrawling "void" over them.
    • 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.
  3. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.
    You get the Finnish state flag by defacing the national flag with the state coat of arms placed in the middle of the cross.

Synonyms

  • (damage in a conspicuous way): disfigure, mar, obliterate, scar, vandalize
  • (degrade the face value): cancel, devalue, nullify, void

Derived terms

  • defacement

Translations

See also

  • efface

Source: wiktionary.org