different between hardship vs defacement
hardship
English
Etymology
From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard +? -ship.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??d???p/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??d???p/
- Hyphenation: hard?ship
Noun
hardship (countable and uncountable, plural hardships)
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
Antonyms
- softship
Translations
Verb
hardship (third-person singular simple present hardships, present participle hardshipping, simple past and past participle hardshipped)
- (transitive) To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
- […] an adjustment of the income tax could easily produce the twenty millions without hardshipping any industrious person in the community […]
- 1969, Tract Series (issues 96-129, page 529)
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defacement
English
Etymology
deface +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fe?sm?nt/
- Rhymes: -e?sm?nt
Noun
defacement (countable and uncountable, plural defacements)
- An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
- Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
- An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
- The soldiers found a variety of creative uses for their payment scrip after its defacement to scrap paper; some used it as toilet paper.
- (heraldry, vexillology) A symbol added to a flag or coat of arms to change it or make it different from another.
Usage notes
- Defacement generally has negative valence (that is, it is a bad thing), except in heraldry, where it is a neutral term.
Synonyms
- (act of defacing): disfiguration, graffiti, obliteration, vandalism
- (nullification of face value): cancellation, devaluation
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