vandalise
See also: vandalisé
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editvandalise (third-person singular simple present vandalises, present participle vandalising, simple past and past participle vandalised) (non-Oxford British English)
- To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism.
- 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in SCP Foundation[1], archived from the original on 29 May 2024:
- But... No. Luján broke his violin. That part definitely happened; he remembers it with distressing clarity. His relationship with Luján has never been much more than tepidly professional, but the man was a professional. To vandalise a precious instrument like that would be unthinkable for him, or anybody in the orchestra. There is something wrong.
With everybody.
Except him.
- 2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9:
- Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.
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editto needlessly destroy
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