Disfigure synonyms

dĭs-fĭg'yər

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mayhem
A state of violent disorder or riotous confusion; havoc.
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distort (related)
(Electronics) To cause distortion in (a signal or waveform, for example).
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blemish
To spoil the appearance of.
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mangle
To mutilate or disfigure by repeatedly and roughly cutting, tearing, hacking, or crushing; lacerate and bruise badly
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mar
To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
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mutilate
To cut off or damage a limb or other important part of (a person or animal)
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hurt (related)
To cause physical damage to (something); harm:
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defacement
An act of voiding or devaluing; nullification of the face value.
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disfiguration
The act of disfiguring, spoiling the appearance of something or someone; the state of being disfigured.
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disfigurement
The result of disfiguring; the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfiguration.
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scarification
Scratches or cuts made by scarifying
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uglification
The process of being made ugly or uglified.
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injure
To offend (one's feelings, pride, etc.); wound
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maim
To injure, disable, or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body.
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mark
To indicate in some way for later reference.
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scarify
To distress deeply, as with severe criticism; lacerate.
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uglify
To make ugly; to destroy or worsen the appearance or attractiveness of.
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beautify (antonym)
To make beautiful or more beautiful
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adorn (antonym)
To lend beauty to:
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ornament (antonym)
Ornament is defined as to decorate or make beautiful.
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contort
(Intransitive) To twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression.
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deform
To become deformed:
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misshape
To shape badly or incorrectly. [from 15th c.]
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twist
To wind (two or more threads or strands) around one another, as by spinning
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beautiful (related)
To alter and spoil the natural form or appearance of
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misshapen (related)
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debilitate (related)
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scar (related)
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afflict (related)
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deface
To damage something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
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damage (related)
To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
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defile
To defile is defined as to make something unclean, either literally or figuratively.
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decorate (antonym)
To improve the appearance of an interior of a house, room, office and so forth.
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Disfigure Sentence Examples

  • The coarse cutting of his cartouches contrasts with the splendid finish of the Middle Kingdom work which they disfigure.

  • The style of Cassianus is slovenly, and shows no literary polish, but its directsimplicityis far superior to the rhetorical affectations which disfigure most of the writings of that age.

  • The tawdry and exaggerated rhetoric; the petty vanity and jealousies; the weak sentimentalism; the utter incapacity for proportioning means to ends, and for grasping the stern realities of things, which so commonly disfigure the lives and conduct even of the more honest members of his class, were wholly alien to his nature.

  • Hence his work, written in French, contains a far greater amount of original matter; and his personal observations made in many countries, from England to Egypt, enabled him to avoid most of the puerilities which disfigure other works of his own or of a preceding age.

  • Its vigour and originality have had scanty justice done to them owing to the difficulty of the subject-matter and the style, and the corruptions which still disfigure its text.

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