deform
Example Sentences
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There was the Picasso of late-19th-century realism; the Picasso of angular, broken-down Cubist shapes; the Picasso of playfully deformed portraits.
The medical examiner retrieved a deformed metal projectile.
"The first thing we did was to deform a piece of metal," Freitas explains.
From Science Daily
Sun, however, had a problem: a deformed finger that slowed him down and drew the ire of his overseers.
From Barron's
Further investigation revealed that eight frames, the ribs of the ship's structural skeleton, were deformed and that more steel replacement was required.
From BBC
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