vandalized
past simple and past participle ofvandalize
vandalize
verb[T]
(UKusuallyvandalise)uk/ˈvæn.dəl.aɪz/us/ˈvæn.dəl.aɪz/tointentionallydamagepropertybelongingto otherpeople:
When I got back, mycarhad been vandalized.
Boredteenagerswent around vandalizing phoneboxes.
Crimes against property
- anti-burglar
- anti-burglary
- arson
- artifice burglary
- criminal damage
- distraction burglary
- distraction theft
- fire-raising
- fly-posting
- interloper
- knock-knock burglary
- trespass
- vandalism
- vandalize
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Destroying and demolishing
Examplesofvandalized
vandalized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
In response, several of the new vehicles werevandalized.
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They are not disregarded orvandalized, but they are not visited or understood either.
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The costly, antique furniture and other artefacts in the house seemed to be waiting to bevandalized.
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I went to hundreds of little homes in the area and saw how badly they had been wrecked andvandalized.
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If the surface isvandalizedthe coating can be particularly removed using a combination of graffiti removal solvent and high-pressure washer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was quicklyvandalizedagain, and every piece of glass in the lantern was broken despite the protective mesh.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the decades that followed, much of the cemetery wasvandalizedand desecrated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The hull has beenvandalizedand much of the general cargo that the ship carried has been removed by souvenir hunters over the years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Their grave was robbed andvandalizedseveral times during the monatsery's eventful history.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Prayer books and shawls were thrown on the floor, windows were shattered, drawers were ransacked, andvandalizedthe walls, tables, clocks, and floors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Prayer books and shawls were thrown on the floor, windows were shattered, drawers were ransacked, and walls, tables, clocks, and floors werevandalized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Often local ranchers would try to protect these ruins from plunder, but pot-huntersvandalizedmany sites.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1999, the monastery wasvandalizedand set on fire, when the preserved fragment of the original fresco was destroyed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Duels continued to be fought at the site, and the marble was slowlyvandalizedand removed for souvenirs, leaving nothing remaining by 1820.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This marker has beenvandalizedon at least three occasions, apparently by souvenir seekers.
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- misguided
- misguided attempt
- misguidedly
- misguided policy
- mishandle
- mishandled
- mishandling
- mishap
- mishear
- mishit
- mishmash
- misidentification
- misidentify
- misinform
- misinformation
- misinformed
- misinforming
- misinterpret
- misinterpretation
- misinterpreted
- misinterpreting
- misjudge
- misjudged
- misjudging
- misjudgment