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Vandal

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Noun

1. vandal

someone who willfully destroys or defaces property

2. vandal

a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and North Africa and sacked Rome in 455

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vandal

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noun
a. 
a person who deliberately causes damage or destruction to personal or public property
b. 
(as modifier)
vandal instincts
noun
a member of a Germanic people that raided Roman provinces in the 3rd and 4th centuries ad before devastating Gaul (406–409), conquering Spain and N Africa, and sacking Rome (455): crushed by Belisarius at Carthage (533)

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Vandal

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noun
1. 
a member of an East Germanic people that ravaged Gaul, Spain, and N Africa and sacked Rome ( a.d. 455)
2.  [v-]
a person who, out of malice or ignorance, destroys or spoils any public or private property, esp. that which is beautiful or artistic
adjective
3. 
of the Vandals
: also Vanˈdalic (vænˈdælɪk ; vandalˈik)
4.  [v-]
like or characteristic of a vandal; ruthlessly destructive

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vandal

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n.
1. vandal One who willfully or maliciously defaces or destroys public or private property.
2. A member of a Germanic people that overran Gaul, Spain, and northern Africa in the fourth and fifth centuries AD and sacked Rome in 455.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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