disfigured

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English

Adjective

disfigured (comparative more disfigured, superlative most disfigured)

  1. Having a damaged appearance or form; defaced or deformed.
    • 1618, A Manuall of Deuout Meditations and Exercises, page 449:
      Ponder secondly, how that as soone as that Blessed soule entred againe into that body which was more disfigured then any body euer was, it transformed it into a far more excellent shape then it had in the mount Thabor, & made it a thousand times more beautifull & refplendent then the Sunne.
    • 2006, Helena Carvalho, Grant Me A Cloud, page 49:
      She had once been very beautiful, and now she was very disfigured and angry.
    • 2008, Mary O'Brien, Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, page 124:
      Timmy was very disfigured with basel cell sarcoma and he hated to have his blood drawn.

Derived terms

Verb

disfigured

  1. simple past and past participle of disfigure