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disfigured

disfigured adjective: having a damaged appearance or form; defaced or deformed. Also the simple past and past participle of disfigure.

Adjective

disfigured (comparative more disfigured, superlative most disfigured)

  1. Having a damaged appearance or form; defaced or deformed.
    • Ponder secondly, how that as soone as that Blessed soule entred againe into that body which was more disfigured then any body euer was, it transformed it into a far more excellent shape then it had in the mount Thabor, & made it a thousand times more beautifull & refplendent then the Sunne.1618, A Manuall of Deuout Meditations and Exercises, page 449
    • She had once been very beautiful, and now she was very disfigured and angry.2006, Helena Carvalho, Grant Me A Cloud, page 49

Also used as

disfigured is also the simple past and past participle of disfigure.

Forms of disfigured

comparativemore disfigured
superlativemost disfigured

Words formed from disfigured

Questions about disfigured

What does disfigured mean?
Disfigured means having a damaged appearance or form; defaced or deformed.
What part of speech is disfigured?
Disfigured is an adjective.

Words near disfigured in the dictionary

  1. disfellowships
  2. disfiguration
  3. disfigurations
  4. disfigurative
  5. disfigure
  6. disfigured
  7. disfigurement
  8. disfigurements
  9. disfigurer
  10. disfigurers
  11. disfigures

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