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dis·fig·ure

(dĭs-fĭg′yər)

tr.v. dis·fig·ured, dis·fig·ur·ing, dis·fig·ures

To mar or spoil the appearance or shape of; deform.

[Middle English disfiguren, from Old French desfigurer : des-, dis- + figure, figure (from Latin figūra, shape; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots).]

dis·fig′u·ra′tion, dis·fig′ure·ment n.

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disfigured

(dɪsˈfɪɡəd)

adj

spoiled in appearance; scarred

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Adj.

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

ugly - displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

disfigured

adjective damaged, scarred, mutilated, marred, spoilt, ugly, maimed, deformed, blemished She tried not to look at his scarred, disfigured face.

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disfigured

[dɪsˈfɪgəd] ADJ → desfigurado

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disfigured

[dɪsˈfɪgə^rd] adj [person, face] → défiguré(e)

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'Do you remember when, in his inheritance of your nature, and in your pampering of his pride and passion, he did this, and disfigured me for life?

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Was his face at all disfigured? No, he believed not.

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"Well, the abbe -- the Abbe Busoni." Monte Cristo took off the wig which disfigured him, and let fall his black hair, which added so much to the beauty of his pallid features.

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Mine enemies have grown powerful and have disfigured the likeness of my doctrine, so that my dearest ones have to blush for the gifts that I gave them.

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This done very rapidly, she kissed his disfigured forehead, looked up in anguish to the stars, and blessed him and forgave him, 'if she had anything to forgive.' It was only in that instant that she thought of herself, and then she thought of herself only for him.

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But I lay with my disfigured face to the wall and felt no particular gratitude.

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I can't express what followed it save by saying that the silence itself-- which was indeed in a manner an attestation of my strength-- became the element into which I saw the figure disappear; in which I definitely saw it turn as I might have seen the low wretch to which it had once belonged turn on receipt of an order, and pass, with my eyes on the villainous back that no hunch could have more disfigured, straight down the staircase and into the darkness in which the next bend was lost.

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I like all the novelties," said the ancestress, lifting the stone to her small bright orbs, which no glasses had ever disfigured. "Very handsome," she added, returning the jewel; "very liberal.

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This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.

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It was a very dark miserable place, very low and very damp: the walls disfigured by a thousand rents and blotches.

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"I only came in for a cup of coffee." His sensitive face was all disfigured with excitement.