单词 | vandalize |
释义 | vandalize From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Crimevandalizevan‧dal‧ize (also vandalise British English) /ˈvændəl-aɪz/ ●○○ verb [transitive]SCCto damage or destroy things deliberately, especially public property The cemetery was vandalized during the night.► see thesaurus at damage→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusvandalize• All the public telephones in the area had been vandalized.• Most of the public phones have been vandalized.• A few days later, the house was ruthlessly, mercilessly, vandalized.• Now, certainly within the last twenty-four hours, the room had been vandalized.• After her death, it was vandalized and eventually bulldozed into nothing.• Since then his name has been vandalized and the weather-worn inscription from Nuptials at Tipasa is already difficult to read.• They would not have to worry about their car being vandalized or stolen from a car park.• City residents stop vandalizing public phones.• No-one is really sure why people vandalize their own neighbourhoods. |
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