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Disfigure

Disfigure Meaning & Definition
Disfigure Definition And Meaning

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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