disfigured
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- adjective
- /dɪsˈfɪɡjʊrd/
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desfigurado
- It is a self recognizable jet disfigured in these images.
The doctor save him, but his face is kind of grotesquely disfigured.
- The doctor save him, but his face is kind of grotesquely disfigured.
- And one of the things that happened after I got stabbed and my face was disfigured was that people started remembering me.
Examples
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Maybe he's ugly, or disfigured, and ashamed of how he looks.
Fiction book (1995) -
As someone who has constantly had their worth defined by the looks, I was born disfigured, but but Adele wasn't.
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Some died, others were painfully disfigured for life.
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To be facially disfigured is really hard.
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He was poisoned and his face was was disfigured and but he won.
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He begins to spot others converging on him: the corpses of those he killed, bloody and disfigured.
Fiction book (2002) -
I am reading a book called The Face Maker, A Visionary Surgeons Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War One by Lindsay Fitzharris.
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Nothing left but a poor, disfigured, raging psychopath who possesses the body of a boy who long ago faded when he first decided to end his life and overdose.
Blog text (30) -
He was disfigured in the accident and required extensive surgery to improve his appearance.
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After the fire, she was left with a disfigured face that made her self-conscious.
Synonyms
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Not the normal shape and often looking ugly
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5.3
Having parts that are badly torn or crushed with jagged edges
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Marked by old visible cuts or damage
Having a shape that is not normal and often looking ugly
Having a mark or fault that makes it look worse
Twisted out of shape so it looks ugly or unnatural
Having a part badly damaged or removed, like an arm
Antonyms
How Disfigured
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word disfigured comes from the parts dis- meaning 'not' and figure meaning 'shape' or 'form'. So if a person or thing is disfigured, their usual shape or face is 'ruined' or 'spoiled', which is why the word means having a damaged appearance.