disfigure

Example Sentences

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Repeated removal of the tendrils is needed, too, so they don’t disfigure the flowers or stems.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024

So is this a knowing reference to the power of patriarchy to define — and manipulate, disfigure or distort — veracity?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2022

“But, of course, in the end reality wins out, and trying to disfigure it or reinterpret it doesn’t work.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2017

Still, the scars from fighting last fall disfigure the community, once home to 2,500 people and now half deserted.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2015

This only makes a noise blur across me and the Doorman’s face disfigure above.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak