disfigure
to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
to mar the effect or excellence of: His reputation was disfigured by instances of political favoritism.
Origin of disfigure
1synonym study For disfigure
Other words for disfigure
Opposites for disfigure
Other words from disfigure
- dis·fig·ur·er, noun
- un·dis·fig·ured, adjective
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How to use disfigure in a sentence
Embodying both the disfigured exterior and the sensitive man inside is the challenge facing Cooper.
Some of the corpses were too disfigured for families to recognize.
Her once beautiful face was now disfigured from the skin-picking habit that plagues so many addicts.
She slid down the length of the hull, and was severely disfigured when her nose was nearly ripped from her face.
Costa Concordia Inquiry Begins: Transcripts and Reports From the Scene | Barbie Latza Nadeau | March 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“When it is the governor who goes bad, the fabric of Illinois is torn, disfigured, and not easily repaired,” he lectured.
Harsh Prison Sentence Ends Blagojevich Circus | Michelle Cottle | December 8, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He took the hand she held out to him, and looked down at her out of his grimy, disfigured face, an odd tenderness stirring him.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniA kindly young man, with a rather wide face and hands disfigured as to fingers by much early baseball.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartThe discourses of our modern preachers are not disfigured by similar faults.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)The moonlight made Smith's sallow, disfigured face so much more ghastly than usual, that he had the air of a ghoul or vampyre.
Overland | John William De ForestBut when the blood had been washed from the disfigured face it was known, beyond all doubt, for that of Charles the Bold.
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
British Dictionary definitions for disfigure
/ (dɪsˈfɪɡə) /
to spoil the appearance or shape of; deface
to mar the effect or quality of
Derived forms of disfigure
- disfigurer, noun
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