Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Deface

Deface (de*fās") , transitive verb

[Old English defacen to disfigure, efface, Old French desfacier; Latin dis- + facies face. See Face, and compare Efface.]

1.
To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.
This high face defaced. — Emerson
So by false learning is good sense defaced. — Pope
2.
To destroy; to make null. [Obsolete]
[Profane scoffing] doth... deface the reverence of religion. — Bacon
For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. — Spenser