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English Dictionary: disfigured by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disfigured
adj
  1. having the appearance spoiled; "a disfigured face"; "strip mining left a disfigured landscape"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disfigure \Dis*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
      {Disfigured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disfiguring}.] [OF.
      desfigurer, F. d[82]figurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer
      to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See
      {Figure}, and cf. {Defiguration}.]
      To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or
      beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
  
               Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      Syn: To deface; deform; mar; injure.
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