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deformest

deformest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of deform.

Meaning of deform

Verb

deform (third-person singular simple present deforms, present participle deforming, simple past and past participle deformed)

  1. (transitive) To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
    • I that am curtaild of this faire proportion / Cheated of feature by diſſembling nature, / Deformd, vnfinisht, ſent before my time / Into this breathing vvorld ſcarce halfe made vp, / And that ſo lamely and vnfaſhionable, / That dogs barke at me as I halt by them: […]c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    contort, distort
    Antonyms:
    undeform
    1. (transitive) To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress.
  2. (also, figuratively, transitive) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
    • a face deformed by bitterness
  3. (transitive) To mar the character or quality of (something).
    • a marriage deformed by jealousy
  4. (intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.
    • If I answer that metal’s hard and shiny and cold to the touch and deforms without breaking under blows from a harder material, [David] Hume says those are all sights and sounds and touch. There’s no substance. Tell me what metal is apart from these sensations. Then, of course, I’m stuck.1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 11, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part II, page 133

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Origin of deformest

deform + -est

Questions about deformest

What is deformest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deformest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of deform.

Words near deformest in the dictionary

  1. deformed wing virus
  2. deformedly
  3. deformedness
  4. deformer
  5. deformers
  6. deformest
  7. deformeter
  8. deformeters
  9. deformeth
  10. deforming
  11. deformingly

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