Meaning of DISFIGUREMENT
| Pronunciation: | | dis'figyurmunt
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- [n] the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something; "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"
- [n] an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration"
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| | Synonyms: | | defacement, deformity, disfiguration, disfiguration |
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| | See Also: | | appearance, damage, harm, hurt, scathe, visual aspect | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis*fig"ure*ment\, n.
1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured;
deformity. --Milton.
2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement
rather than any embellishment of discourse. --Hume.
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| | Related Terms: | | birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla, cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot, clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion, dysphemism, fault, flatfoot, flaw, freakishness, freckle, gracelessness, harelip, hemangioma, hickey, homeliness, humpback, hunchback, ill-favoredness, inelegance, keloid, kink, knock-knee, kyphosis, lentigo, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, milium, misproportion, misshape, mole, monstrosity, mutilation, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, plainness, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shapelessness, splayfoot, split, strawberry mark, sty, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis, track, truncation, twist, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness, unpleasingness, unprettiness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, valgus, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wryneck |
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