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VANDAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who willfully destroys or defaces property
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vandal" is a kind of...):
destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)
Derivation:
vandalise; vandalize (destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Vandal" is a kind of...):
barbarian; savage (a member of an uncivilized people)
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