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vandalize, v.|ˈvændəlaɪz|
[f. Vandal n. + -ize.]
trans. a. To render Vandal in respect of culture. b. To deal with or treat in a vandalistic manner.
1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 684 To vandalize Europe then can have no other signification than to introduce eastern Slavonian barbarians to domination over the actual feats of culture and improvement. 1821New Monthly Mag. II. 353 They are not only vandalized in style, but in sentiment. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 99 The noblest monuments of art and piety have been vandalized. 1905Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 17/1 A very remarkable church, spoilt and vandalised by the introduction of galleries and deal pews. 1968Wall Street Jrnl. 19 Feb. 1/1 These militants roamed the campus, vandalizing the book⁓store and a dining hall and terrorizing students. 1971J. Wainwright Last Buccaneer i. 48 He had to run more than a mile before he could find a kiosk which had not been vandalised. 1978Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 2/8 Newcastle..is to incur even heavier expenditure by importing more costly American [parking] meters said to be harder to vandalise.
Hence ˈvandalized ppl. a., ˈvandalizing vbl. n.and ppl. a.
1804Fessenden Democracy Unveiled (1806) I. 123 Direct their vandalizing ravages To make men like themselves, mere savages. 1832Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 581 No..vigilance..could disarm their rude followers of ferocious and Vandalizing habits. 1971Oxford Times 13 Aug. 5/7 In a two-week campaign they restored 21 vandalised kiosks to working order. 1979U. Curtiss Menace Within xvi. 169 Inquiries..in connection with the vandalizing of a local school. 1984Times 8 Oct. 14/3 In Minster Court, Liverpool, buyers rushed for well landscaped flats in what had been a vandalized estate. |