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deface
To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of.
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  1. To impair the usefulness, value, or influence of.
  2. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure.
  3. To spoil the appearance of; disfigure; mar
mar
To injure or damage so as to make imperfect, less attractive, etc.; spoil; impair; disfigure
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  1. To injure or damage so as to make imperfect, less attractive, etc.; spoil; impair; disfigure
  2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
  3. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
mutilate
To injure severely or disfigure, especially by cutting off tissue or body parts.
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  1. To injure severely or disfigure, especially by cutting off tissue or body parts.
  2. To damage, injure, or otherwise mar, esp. by removing an essential part or parts
  3. To damage or mar (an object):
deform
To become deformed:
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  1. To become deformed:
  2. To impair the form or shape of
  3. To alter from proper or natural form; misshape:
contort
To cause to deviate from what is normal, proper, or accurate:
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  1. To cause to deviate from what is normal, proper, or accurate:
  2. To twist or wrench out of its usual form into one that is grotesque; distort violently
  3. To twist, wrench, or bend out of proper or natural shape:
deform
To alter from proper or natural form; misshape:
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  1. To alter from proper or natural form; misshape:
  2. To spoil the beauty or appearance of; disfigure:
  3. To impair the form or shape of
distort
To modify (a wave, sound, signal, etc.) so as to produce an unfaithful reproduction
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  1. To modify (a wave, sound, signal, etc.) so as to produce an unfaithful reproduction
  2. To twist out of a proper or natural relation of parts; misshape:
  3. To twist out of shape; change the usual or normal shape, form, or appearance of
misshape
To shape badly or incorrectly. [from 15th c.]
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  1. To shape badly or incorrectly. [from 15th c.]
  2. To shape badly; deform.
twist
To pull, break, or snap by turning:
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  1. To pull, break, or snap by turning:
  2. To impart a spiral or coiling shape to, as by turning the ends in opposite directions:
  3. To wrench or sprain:
Find another word for disfigure. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for disfigure, like: deface, mar, mutilate, deform, damage, distort, hurt, contort, deform, distort and misshape.

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  • 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.

  • A strong north-west wind, at such times, is of incalculable value to the farmer."8 Other gall-making dipterous flies are members of the family Trypetidae, which disfigure the seed-heads of plants, and of the family Mycetophilidae, such as the species Sciara tilicola, 9 Low, the cause of the oblong or rounded green and red galls of the young shoots and leaves of the lime.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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