vandalise

See also: vandalisé

English

Alternative forms

vandalize (American)

Etymology

vandal +‎ -ise

Verb

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

To needlessly destroy or deface other people’s property or public property; to commit vandalism.

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
Interlingua: vandalisar
Italian: vandalizzare (it)
Japanese: 打ち壊す (buchikowasu)
Maori: 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

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