vandalise

See also: vandalisé

English

Alternative forms

• vandalize (US, Oxford British English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English vandal

English -ise

English vandalise

From vandal + -ise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvændəlaɪz/
• Hyphenation: van‧dal‧ise

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Verb

vandalise (third-person singular simple present vandalises, present participle vandalising, simple past and past participle vandalised) (non-Oxford British English)

1. To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism.
   • 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 139:

     But... No. Luján broke his violin. That part definitely happened; he remembers it with distressing clarity. His relationship with Luján has never been much more than tepidly professional, but the man was a professional. To vandalise a precious instrument like that would be unthinkable for him, or anybody in the orchestra. There is something wrong.

     With everybody.

     Except him.

   • 2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9:

     Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.

Derived terms

• vandalism, vandalisation, vandalization

Translations

to needlessly destroy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破壞 / 破坏 (zh) (pòhuài)

• Cornish: vandalisa
• Danish: vandalisere
• Estonian: vandaalitsema
• Faroese: gera herverk
• Finnish: vandalisoida (fi), tärvellä (fi)
• French: vandaliser (fr)
• German: vandalisieren (de), mutwillig zerstören
• Greek: βανδαλίζω (el) (vandalízo)
• Interlingua: vandalisar
• Italian: vandalizzare (it)
• Japanese: 打ち壊す (ja) (buchikowasu)
• Māori: takakino
• Norwegian: vandalisere
• Polish: wandalizować impf, zwandalizować pf
• Portuguese: vandalizar (pt)
• Russian: (ва́рварски, бессмы́сленно) разруша́ть (ru) impf (razrušátʹ), разру́шить (ru) pf (razrúšitʹ)
• Spanish: vandalizar (es)
• Swedish: vandalisera (sv)
• Thai: ทำลาย (th) (tam-laai)
• Tibetan: གཅག་གཏོར་བྱས (gcag gtor byas)
• Turkish: vandalize etmek
• Volapük: vandalön
• Welsh: fandaleiddio (cy)

French

Verb

vandalise

1. inflection of vandaliser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative