English > disfigure: 1 sense > verb 1, contactMeaning | mar or spoil the appearance of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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Example | "The vandals disfigured the statue" |
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Synonyms | deface, blemish |
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Narrower | maul, mangle | injure badly by beating |
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scar, mark, pock, pit | mark with a scar |
Broader | mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate | make imperfect |
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Spanish | afear, deformar, desfigurar, manchar, perjudicar |
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Catalan | desfigurar |
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Nouns | disfigurement | the act of damaging the appearance or surface / surface of something |
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disfigurement, disfiguration | an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen |