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What (who) is VANDALIZING - definition
ACTIVITY OF DELIBERATELY DAMAGING OR DEFACING AN OBJECT OR STRUCTURE
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![Vandalized shooting stand in [[Germany]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abgesägte Leiter.jpg?width=200 "Vandalized shooting stand in [[Germany]]")
![Defaced coat of arms (probably of [[Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc]]) in [[Santa Venera]], [[Malta]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Coat of arms on the outdoors of police station next to St Joseph Tower.png?width=200 "Defaced coat of arms (probably of [[Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc]]) in [[Santa Venera]], [[Malta]]")
![The Vandals sacking [[Rome]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Genseric sacking rome 456.jpg?width=200 "The Vandals sacking [[Rome]]")
![Modern graffiti on the Achaemenid era rock relief of Rawansar tomb, [[Iran]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Modern graffiti on relief of Rawansar rock cut tomb.jpg?width=200 "Modern graffiti on the Achaemenid era rock relief of Rawansar tomb, [[Iran]]")
![[[Armand Călinescu]]'s memorial with the bronze plaque stolen and the name of the assassin written over](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Monument Armand Calinescu.jpg?width=200 "[[Armand Călinescu]]'s memorial with the bronze plaque stolen and the name of the assassin written over")
![[[Shopping cart]], thrown into a waterway, [[Netherlands]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Objects. Abandoned shopping cart.jpg?width=200 "[[Shopping cart]], thrown into a waterway, [[Netherlands]]")
![People defacing the walls of the [[Golconda Fort]] in [[Hyderabad]], [[India]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/People defacing the Golconda walls.jpg?width=200 "People defacing the walls of the [[Golconda Fort]] in [[Hyderabad]], [[India]]")
![Headless statue in [[Ely Cathedral]]; ideological vandalism during the [[English Reformation]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S95ReformationDestructionEly.jpg?width=200 "Headless statue in [[Ely Cathedral]]; ideological vandalism during the [[English Reformation]]")
![SHELL]]" photographed in [[Michigan]] in 1973](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sticker on Stop-sign Reads, "The Hell With Shell"-in Pentwater, Michigan - NARA - 547042 (cropped).jpg?width=200 "SHELL]]\" photographed in [[Michigan]] in 1973")
![cannabis]] in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Street light vandalism in Bogotá, Colombia.jpg?width=200 "cannabis]] in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]]")
![passenger car]] on a [[train]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vandalismus ve vlaku.jpg?width=200 "passenger car]] on a [[train]].")
![Vandalised park bench in [[Zarqa]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vandalized park bench in Zarqa, Jordan.png?width=200 "Vandalised park bench in [[Zarqa]]")
![Vandalism on a sign in front of a high school pool entrance, reading: "POO BACON"](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vandalized sign reading "POO BACON".png?width=200 "Vandalism on a sign in front of a high school pool entrance, reading: \"POO BACON\"")
![Two billboards with the same original content, the billboard on the right being an example of [[subvertising]]—vandalizing with a political message](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Where is your family - due process.jpg?width=200 "Two billboards with the same original content, the billboard on the right being an example of [[subvertising]]—vandalizing with a political message")
vandalise
see vandalize
vandalize
(vandalizes, vandalizing, vandalized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'vandalise'
If something such as a building or part of a building is vandalized by someone, it is damaged on purpose.
The walls had been horribly vandalized with spray paint...
About 1,000 rioters vandalized buildings and looted stores.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
vandalize
or vandalise
¦ verb deliberately destroy or damage (property).
Wikipedia
Vandalism
Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.
The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner. The term finds its roots in an Enlightenment view that the Germanic Vandals were a uniquely destructive people.
Examples of use of VANDALIZING
1. Looting, vandalizing and burning of properties defined LRAs means of survivals.
2. Local TV stations showed an angry mob vandalizing a church, throwing away furniture and setting them on fire.
3. Representatives of Jewish settlements in the Nablus area said there was no justification for vandalizing Muslim graves.
4. Police are looking for three men of Slavic appearance suspected of vandalizing the gravestone, Interfax reported Wednesday. «
5. Some of them were wounded by gunfire after several village residents were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing a cellular antenna.