About The Word Disfigurement
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Disfigurement
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What's The Definition Of Disfigurement?
[n] the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"
[n] an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration" Synonyms | Synonyms for Disfigurement: defacement | deformity | disfiguration | disfiguration Related Terms | Find terms related to Disfigurement: birthmark | blackhead | bleb | blemish | blister | bowlegs | bulla | cacophony | camelback | check | cicatrix | cleft palate | clubfoot | clumsiness | comedo | crack | crater | craze | crookback | defacement | defect | deformation | deformity | disfiguration | distortion | dysphemism | fault | flatfoot | flaw | freakishness | freckle | gracelessness | harelip | hemangioma | hickey | homeliness | humpback | hunchback | ill-favoredness | inelegance | keloid | kink | knock-knee | kyphosis | lentigo | lordosis | malconformation | malformation | milium | misproportion | misshape | mole | monstrosity | mutilation | needle scar | nevus | pimple | pit | plainness | pock | pockmark | port-wine mark | port-wine stain | pustule | rift | scab | scar | scratch | sebaceous cyst | shapelessness | splayfoot | split | strawberry mark | sty | swayback | talipes | teratology | torticollis | track | truncation | twist | uglification | uglifying | ugliness | unaestheticness | unattractiveness | unbeautifulness | uncomeliness | ungainliness | ungracefulness | unhandsomeness | unloveliness | unpleasingness | unprettiness | unshapeliness | unsightliness | valgus | verruca | vesicle | wale | warp | wart | weal | welt | wen | whitehead | wryneck See Also | appearance | damage | harm | hurt | scathe | visual aspect Disfigurement In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*fig"ure*ment\, n.
1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured;
deformity. --Milton.
2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement
rather than any embellishment of discourse. --Hume.
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