disfigure
disfigure is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- birthmark
- blain
- blemish
- blobber
- blobber-lipped
- bloodshot
- blot
- blotch
- blubber
- blur
- defect
- deformity
- deterioration
- dirt
- discolored
- disfigurement
- excrescence
- eyesore
- flaw
- freckle
- freckled
- imperfect
- imperfection
- injure
- injury
- lip
- list
- macula
- maculation
- mole
- patch
- pimple
- pitted
- protuberance
- pustule
- scar
- skin
- smudge
- speck
- speckle
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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