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to catface

to catface

9.9
Make fruit like tomatoes grow marks and change shape from frost or pests
  • verb
  • Jargon
: deformar
  • Late frosts can catface the tomatoes, leaving them with unsightly scars.

Examples

  • Improper pollination can catface fruit, making it less appealing for sale.

  • Gardeners try to prevent anything that might catface their crops during the growing season.

  • A late frost began catfacing many of the young tomatoes on the north-facing plants.

  • Frost can catface tomatoes in early spring.

  • Can pests catface my tomatoes?

  • When pests attack, they can catface fruit, resulting in deformed crops.

  • Poor pollination conditions often lead to catfacing in many types of fruit.

How Damaged

to ruin
∞ 2.0
to catface
  • Jargon
9.9
to bruise
6 3.0

Surface Forms

catface infinitive
catfaced past
catfaced past participle
catfacing present participle
catfaces third person singular

Etymology

Catface comes from the way damaged fruit gets scars that look like a cat's face, so to catface fruit is to cause those scars or deformities.