Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having the appearance spoiled.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disfigure .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the appearance spoiled
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Examples
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One very pretty girl has had her face all cut open, and may remain disfigured for life.
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La Chimuela—the nickname indicates disfigured teeth—rips open her left forearm in a splash of bottles.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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La Chimuela—the nickname indicates disfigured teeth—rips open her left forearm in a splash of bottles.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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La Chimuela—the nickname indicates disfigured teeth—rips open her left forearm in a splash of bottles.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
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Long and tearfully the old pastor looked at that name disfigured, as she, too, who bore it had been, by the hand of man.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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I like how lefties keep throwing out "disfigured", like the fact that McCain's wife wasn't hot anymore is what REALLY makes his leaving her bad.
"The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus." Ann Althouse 2008
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Moreover, the responses Earthy's informants gave when asked why they "disfigured" their bodies in this manner suggest an explanation quite different from what ethnographers may originally have had in mind.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Over the years, as Boba had appeared in the "Expanded Universe" novels, the occasional reference had been made to his maskless visage being ugly, or unappealing, or...well, I forget the exact wording, but I don't recall him ever being explicitly described as "disfigured" until this novel.
Archive 2006-09-10 2006
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Over the years, as Boba had appeared in the "Expanded Universe" novels, the occasional reference had been made to his maskless visage being ugly, or unappealing, or...well, I forget the exact wording, but I don't recall him ever being explicitly described as "disfigured" until this novel.
Archive 2006-09-10 2006
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These "disfigured" hands have fueled discussions for the last 100 years.
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