deform
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Defensive wars don’t merely protect states, they also deform them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The tyres need to be able to deform as they go over rocks and then ping back to their original shape.
From BBC • May 12, 2025
I love this quote by Ntozake Shange: “i cant count the number of times i have viscerally wanted to attack deform n maim the language that i was taught to hate myself in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2025
At very high exposures, fluoride can also weaken and deform bones.
From Salon • May 7, 2024
Internal geological processes slowly deform the surfaces of Venus, Mars, Ganymede and Europa, as well as Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing deform
Shape Up: Form
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Plate Tectonics - Middle School
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Out of the Dust
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