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

Yet the addition of modern touches threatens to disfigure the cathedral, according to dozens of cultural figures and intellectuals who have stood up against the proposals.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

“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

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

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak