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Amused at his anatomy being dissected in front of him, Elordi claps back, mock-defensively: “He was grotesque to look at, but he was somewhat gifted. A deformed skinny freak.”

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When the metal is deformed, dislocations twist and shift, nudging nearby atoms into preferred positions.

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Sun, however, had a problem: a deformed finger that slowed him down and drew the ire of his overseers.

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Further investigation revealed that eight frames, the ribs of the ship's structural skeleton, were deformed and that more steel replacement was required.

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The tyres need to be able to deform as they go over rocks and then ping back to their original shape.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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