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synonyms for disfigure

  • deform
  • distort
  • maim
  • mangle
  • mar
  • mutilate
  • scar
  • blemish
  • damage
  • deface
  • defile
  • hurt
  • injure
  • disfashion
  • disfeature
See also synonyms for: disfigured

antonyms for disfigure

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  • aid
  • beautify
  • cure
  • heal
  • help
  • repair
  • adorn
  • assist
  • decorate
  • embellish
  • fix
  • mend
  • ornament
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How to use disfigure in a sentence

The experiences of many scarred, disfigured, and traumatized veterans, Worland says, were transmuted into monster films — the Phantom in Chaney Sr.
THE HORROR CENTURYAJA ROMANOOCTOBER 25, 2021VOX
Others, like panamensis, mostly found in Panama and Colombia, attack the mucous membranes that line the inside of the nose and mouth, disfiguring people permanently.
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Topping in this way permanently disfigures the natural form.
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Massive commercial surveillance for the sake of a few companies is disfiguring our societies.
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There were points where I thought it was possible I could either die or become seriously disfigured.
HOW BATTERED D.C. POLICE MADE A STAND AGAINST THE CAPITOL MOBPETER HERMANNJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON POST
It would not mutilate and disfigure the body, for it is a sacred temple, to be made beautiful and attractive.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VIIJOHN LORD
I never saw any one who so well defies the power of time and vice to disfigure.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGE
Footnote 184: This remark refers to several blots of ink which disfigure the page of his Journal on which he was writing.
THE MILITARY JOURNALS OF TWO PRIVATE SOLDIERS, 1758-1775ABRAHAM TOMLINSON
The documents stolen by Reuter were interpolated by the police so as to disfigure their meaning.
REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTIONKARL MARX
A fine line made with a medium pencil will answer the same purpose and will not materially disfigure the box.
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WORDS RELATED TO DISFIGURE

  • assault
  • bash
  • beat
  • break
  • bruise
  • buffet
  • clobber
  • contuse
  • cripple
  • crush
  • dash
  • deface
  • demolish
  • destroy
  • disable
  • disfigure
  • drub
  • hurt
  • injure
  • lacerate
  • lambaste
  • lame
  • lash
  • mangle
  • mar
  • maul
  • mutilate
  • pelt
  • pommel
  • pound
  • pummel
  • punish
  • ruin
  • shatter
  • smash
  • thrash
  • wallop
  • wreck
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