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How to use disfigure in a sentence

14 example sentences · verb

Disfigure means to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it. Example: “His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.”

Examples of disfigure by meaning

verbTo irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality...

  • His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.

More sentences with disfigure

  • The shorter interval is likely because biocolonization becomes disfiguring more quickly once it has been established.2018, Maria Koui, Fulvio Zezza, Dimitrios Kouis, 10th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin…. From the entry biocolonization
  • Timmy was very disfigured with basel cell sarcoma and he hated to have his blood drawn.2008, Mary O'Brien, Spirituality in Nursing: Standing on Holy Ground, page 124. From the entry disfigured
  • She had once been very beautiful, and now she was very disfigured and angry.2006, Helena Carvalho, Grant Me A Cloud, page 49. From the entry disfigured
  • His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.1958 May 9, Strix [pseudonym], “English Spoken Here”, in The Spectator, volume 200, number 6776, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 585, column 2. From the entry luteous
  • The occultive properties of both discourses, ethics and politics, have exerted a dominant and disfiguring influence in Rousseau studies.2006, James L. O'Rourke, Sex, Lies, and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession, page 191. From the entry occultive
  • In their disfigured faces, Suzanna sensed the stunning realization that they too were now among the honored dead.1984, Richard Setlowe, The Haunting of Suzanna Blackwell: A Novel, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 272. From the entry rabid
  • There were no longer those disfiguring gouts of clay which had produced dread in me by bemonstering the features.1980, Barry Unsworth, Pascali’s Island, New York: Norton, published 1997, page 163. From the entry bemonster
  • A smudge of lampblack is made on his forehead to disfigure him and thus avert the evil eye.1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 261. From the entry lampblack
  • What she didn't appreciate was that after travelling that far, disfiguring myself and ruining my potentially lucrative hand-modelling career, we weren't about to give up.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 122. From the entry hand modelling
  • I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday…. From the entry claybank
  • A single earworm may seriously damage or destroy the bud of a cole crop plant, causing the plant to be disfigured or to produce several secondary buds.1980 October, C. S. Creighton, J. E. Halfhill, “Caterpillars and How They Damage Plants”, in Control of Caterpillars on Cabbage and Other…. From the entry earworm
  • "And it always seems to me," he went on ruminatingly, "that, after all we are nothing better than interlopers on the earth, disfiguring and staining wherever we go.1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt. From the entry ruminatingly
  • Realists hold that the latter process does not disfigure or denaturise reality, since both analysis and synthesis are regulated by the objective evidence of reality itself.1915, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society - Volume 15. From the entry denaturise

Meaning of disfigure

  1. verb To irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

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Questions about disfigure in a sentence

How do you use disfigure in a sentence?
Disfigure is used as a verb. For example: “His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.”
What is a short sentence with disfigure?
“His luteous face, scrobiculate by some unspeakable disease, was further disfigured by an anoopsia.”
What does disfigure mean?
Disfigure means to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.

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