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🎨 To paint illegally 🎨 Covered with graffiti
to graffitied

to graffitied

1 5.3
To mark a wall with drawings or writing without permission
  • verb
  • /ɡrəˈfiːtɪd/
: grafitear
  • The artists illegally graffitied the abandoned building with colorful murals.

Examples

  • The wax on wax off car gets graffitied and Larusso goes off the rails.

  • You had statues, historic statues, being graffitied as well as UCLA was graffitied or otherwise.

  • So some so some priest graffitied on it and graffitied on it and said, you know, that that he was there.

  • During the protest, several walls in the city were graffitied with slogans.

  • He was caught graffitied the train station after hours, leaving behind a signature tag.

Synonyms

to vandalize
vsto graffitied
43 4.9

To damage public or private property on purpose

involves illegal marking by drawing or writing rather than destruction
to deface
vsto graffitied
26 5.8

Damage the surface of something by writing, scratching, or painting it

is a specific illegal act of marking surfaces with drawings or writing
to stencil
vsto graffitied
9 4.8

To make a pattern on a surface by applying paint through a thin sheet with holes

is illegal freehand marking done by drawing or writing, not using templates

How Covered

to vandalize
43 4.9
to graffitied
1 5.3
to scribble
52 3.5
to tag
  • Texting
178 2.4
to mark
111 1.0

Surface Forms

graffitied infinitive
graffitied past
graffitied past participle
graffiting present participle
graffitied third person singular

Morphology

graffitied = graffiti (transparent) = graffiti + ed

Regular past-tense/past-participle '-ed' added to the verb 'graffiti' to indicate completed action.

Etymology

Graffitied as a verb comes from Italian graffito 'a scratch' and graffiare 'to scratch'. So to have graffitied a surface is to have scratched or written on it as a mark, usually without permission.