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disfigure

verb as in make ugly

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The experiences of many scarred, disfigured, and traumatized veterans, Worland says, were transmuted into monster films — the Phantom in Chaney Sr.

From Vox

Others, like panamensis, mostly found in Panama and Colombia, attack the mucous membranes that line the inside of the nose and mouth, disfiguring people permanently.

Topping in this way permanently disfigures the natural form.

Massive commercial surveillance for the sake of a few companies is disfiguring our societies.

From Time

There were points where I thought it was possible I could either die or become seriously disfigured.

It would not mutilate and disfigure the body, for it is a sacred temple, to be made beautiful and attractive.

I never saw any one who so well defies the power of time and vice to disfigure.

Footnote 184: This remark refers to several blots of ink which disfigure the page of his Journal on which he was writing.

The documents stolen by Reuter were interpolated by the police so as to disfigure their meaning.

A fine line made with a medium pencil will answer the same purpose and will not materially disfigure the box.

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On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disfigure, such as: deform, distort, maim, mangle, mar, and mutilate.

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

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