Other forms: vandalized, vandalizing, vandalizes
To vandalize is to damage property deliberately and pointlessly. Vandalize a bus shelter.
The pointlessness is part of the meaning, since theft would be a different word. To vandalize something is judged more harshly than the cost of it usually warrants.
1verbvandalizeTo damage property deliberately and pointlessly.
“Somebody had vandalized every light along the path.”
vandalize is an action.
Also accepted in games: vandalise
From vandal + -ize.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA