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DISFIGURED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the appearance spoiledplay

Example:

strip mining left a disfigured landscape

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

ugly (displeasing to the senses)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb disfigure

Credits

 Context examples: 

As she looked full at me, I saw her face grow sharper and paler, and the marks of the old wound lengthen out until it cut through the disfigured lip, and deep into the nether lip, and slanted down the face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Rosa Dartle sprang up from her seat; recoiled; and in recoiling struck at her, with a face of such malignity, so darkened and disfigured by passion, that I had almost thrown myself between them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)




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