"vandalise" meaning in English

See vandalise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈvændəlaɪz/ Forms: vandalises [present, singular, third-person], vandalising [participle, present], vandalised [participle, past], vandalised [past]
Etymology: From vandal + -ise. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|vandal|ise}} vandal + -ise Head templates: {{en-verb}} vandalise (third-person singular simple present vandalises, present participle vandalising, simple past and past participle vandalised)
  1. To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism. Wikipedia link: vandalise Synonyms: vandalize [British, English, Oxford, US] Derived forms: vandalism, vandalisation, vandalization Translations (to needlessly destroy): 破壞 (Chinese Mandarin), 破坏 (pòhuài) (Chinese Mandarin), vandalisa (Cornish), vandalisere (Danish), vandaalitsema (Estonian), gera herverk (Faroese), vandalisoida (Finnish), tärvellä (Finnish), vandaliser (French), vandalisieren (German), mutwillig zerstören (German), vandalisar (Interlingua), vandalizzare (Italian), 打ち壊す (buchikowasu) (Japanese), takakino (Maori), vandalisere (Norwegian), wandalizować [imperfective] (Polish), zwandalizować [perfective] (Polish), vandalizar (Portuguese), разруша́ть (razrušátʹ) (alt: ва́рварски, бессмы́сленно) [imperfective] (Russian), разру́шить (razrúšitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), vandalizar (Spanish), vandalisera (Swedish), ทำลาย (tam-laai) (Thai), གཅག་གཏོར་བྱས (gcag gtor byas) (Tibetan), vandalize etmek (Turkish), vandalön (Volapük), fandaleiddio (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for vandalise meaning in English (6.2kB)

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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "vandalise",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </p>",
  "path": [
    "vandalise"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "vandalise",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "vandalise"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "vandalise",
  "trace": "started on line 1, detected on line 1"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "vandalise"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "vandalise",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.