About The Word Disfigure
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Disfigure
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What's The Definition Of Disfigure?
[v] mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disfigure: blemish | deface Related Terms | Find terms related to Disfigure: blemish | blot | check | cicatrize | crack | craze | deface | deform | disproportion | distort | dysphemize | flaw | kink | look a fright | look a mess | look bad | look like hell | look something terrible | mar | misshape | mutilate | offend | offend the eye | scab | scar | scarify | split | spoil | truncate | twist | uglify | warp See Also | deflower | impair | mangle | mar | mark | maul | pit | pock | scar | spoil | vitiate Disfigure In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Disfigured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disfiguring}.] [OF.
desfigurer, F. d['e]figurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer
to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See
{Figure}, and cf. {Defiguration}.]
To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or
beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.
--Milton.
Syn: To deface; deform; mar; injure.
\Dis*fig"ure\, n. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] --Chaucer. |
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