deformeth

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

   Synonyms:

   deface, disfigure, distort, mar

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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