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DISFIGURE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does disfigure mean?

• DISFIGURE (verb)
The verb DISFIGURE has 1 sense:

1. mar or spoil the appearance of

Familiarity information: DISFIGURE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DISFIGURE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mar or spoil the appearance of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

blemish; deface; disfigure

Context examples:

scars defaced her cheeks / The vandals disfigured the statue

Hypernyms (to "disfigure" is one way to...):

deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate (make imperfect)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disfigure"):

mangle; maul (injure badly by beating)

mark; pit; pock; scar (mark with a scar)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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