The defacement or destruction of public or private property. 损坏或破坏公私财产的行为。
defacement
[ noun ] the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something <noun.act> the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasionhe objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
Defacement \De*face"ment\, n. 1. The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
2. That which mars or disfigures. --Bacon.
Democratic sponsors designed the latest legislation to ban any act of flag defacement without considering whether it is part of a political protest.