Disfigure

Quick meaning: Disfigure is a verb meaning to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

Meaning

to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

Example Sentences

His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.

The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.

Word Forms

• disfigures
• disfiguring
• disfigured

Synonyms for disfigure

Depending on context, synonyms include leper, distort, blemish, mangle, mutilate, cut up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distort, deface, mangle, mutilate, blemish, cut up.

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