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disfigure

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Disfigure \Dis*fig"ure\, n.
   Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Disfigure \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.

Source : WordNet®

disfigure
     v : mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks";
         "The vandals disfigured the statue" [syn: {deface}, {blemish}]
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