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disfigurement

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Disfigurement \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.

Source : WordNet®

disfigurement
     n 1: an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there
          were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's
          back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration" [syn: {disfiguration},
           {deformity}]
     2: 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" [syn: {defacement}, {disfiguration}]
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