VANDALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vandalize mean? 

• VANDALIZE (verb)
  The verb VANDALIZE has 1 sense:

1. destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism

  Familiarity information: VANDALIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANDALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vandalize    ... he / she / it vandalizes   
Past simple: vandalized   
Past participle: vandalized   
-ing form: vandalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

vandalise; vandalize

Context example:

vandalize the park

Hypernyms (to "vandalize" is one way to...):

destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vandalize"):

key (vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

vandal (someone who willfully destroys or defaces property)