Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disfigure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Disfigure \Dis*fig"ure\, n.
Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disfigure
v 1: mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"
[syn: {deface}, {blemish}]
2: spoil the appearance of; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
[syn: {distort}]
3: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
[syn: {mutilate}, {mangle}, {cut up}]
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