vandalism

English

Wikipedia

The destruction of glass windows and doors is a form of vandalism.

Etymology

After the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455.

Noun

vandalism (countable and uncountable; plural vandalisms)

1. Willful damage or destruction of any property with no other purpose than damage or destruction of said property.

   As we turned down the street I was appalled by the vandalism; spray-paint and smashed windows that were everywhere.

Synonyms

• vandalization

Related terms

• vandal
• vandalise, vandalize

Translations

needless damage or destruction of property

• Arabic: تخريب (ar) (takhriib) m
• Belarusian: вандалізм (be) (vandalízm) m
• Bulgarian: вандализъм (bg) (vandalízăm) m
• Catalan: vandalisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破壞 (cmn), 破坏 (cmn) (pòhuài)

• Czech: vandalismus (cs) m, vandalství (cs) n
• Dutch: vandalisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: vandalismo (eo)
• Estonian: vandalism (et)
• Finnish: vandalismi (fi), ilkivalta (fi)
• French: vandalisme (fr) m
• Galician: vandalismo (gl) m
• German: Vandalismus (de) m
• Greek: βανδαλισμός (el) (vandalismós) m
• Hebrew: ונדליזם (he)
• Hungarian: vandalizmus (hu)
• Ido: vandaleso (io), vandalajo (io)
• Interlingua: vandalismo

• Irish: loitiméireacht (ga) f
• Italian: vandalismo (it) m
• Japanese: 荒らし (ja) (arashi), ヴァンダリズム (ja) (vandarízumu)
• Korean: 반달리즘 (ko) (bandallijeum)
• Macedonian: вандализам (mk) (vandalízam) m, дивјаштво (mk) (dívjaštvo) n
• Malay: vandalisme (ms)
• Norwegian: hærverk (no)
• Polish: wandalizm (pl)
• Portuguese: vandalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: vandalism (ro) n
• Russian: вандализм (ru) (vandalízm) m
• Serbo-Croatian: vandalizam (sh) m
• Spanish: vandalismo (es) m
• Swedish: vandalism (sv) c
• Ukrainian: вандалізм (uk) (vandalízm) m
• Vietnamese: phá hoại (vi)
• Volapük: vandalöm
• Welsh: fandaliaeth (cy) f

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Swedish

Noun

vandalism c

1. vandalism

Declension

Declension of vandalism

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	vandalism	vandalismen
genitive	vandalisms	vandalismens