Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disfigured"

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)

disfigured
adj : having the appearance spoiled; "a disfigured face"; "strip
mining left a disfigured landscape"


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