Disfigure
[dɪs'fɪgə] or [dɪs'fɪɡjɚ]
Definition
(v. t.) To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
(n.) Disfigurement; deformity.
Edited by Carmella
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Deform, deface, mar, injure, spoil, make ugly, make unsightly.
Typist: Tyler
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ADORN]
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Definition
v.t. to spoil the figure of: to change to a worse form: to spoil the beauty of: to deform.—ns. Disfig′urement Disfigurā′tion.
Typed by Geraldine
Examples
- You'll disfigure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Would you wish me to shave my head and black my face, or disfigure myself with a burn, or a scald, or something of that sort? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The post-boys, who had succeeded in cutting the traces, were standing, disfigured with mud and disordered by hard riding, by the horses' heads. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was always hideous, but he looks more awful than ever now, for he appears to have had an accident and he is much disfigured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And the soul which we behold is in a similar condition, disfigured by ten thousand ills. Plato. The Republic.
- My right arm was tolerably restored; disfigured, but fairly serviceable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I do not care how I have disfigured my head since you are not to see it again. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Was his face at all disfigured? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I must be sore disfigured. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What necessity can there possibly be for disfiguring yourself so? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The jealous pettiness that disfigures the earlier tribal ideas of God give place to a new idea of a god of universal righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Loretta