Vandalises

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To purposefully ruin or deface physical items or spaces To engage in destructive acts that harm personal or community property To maliciously attack or impair artistic, cultural, or private entities
2. To intentionally cause harm or destruction to buildings, objects, or public places as an act of defacement
3. To purposefully impair or spoil the appearance or function of physical property through damaging actions

Etymology: This is an inflected form: the third-person singular present of "vandalise", which is the verb "to vandalise" (to deliberately damage or deface property). Its story begins with "vandal", the name of a Germanic people who sacked Rome in 455 and were remembered as destroyers, a reputation that stuck long after the historical Vandals were gone. The verb itself was formed in English by adding the suffix "-ise" to "vandal", so "vandalises" simply follows the regular pattern for verbs ending in "-ise", with the "-s" marking the third-person singular.

Synonyms: destroys, defaces, damages