Disfigurement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disfigurement \Dis*fig"ure*ment\, n.
     1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured;
        deformity. --Milton.
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     2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.


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              Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement
              rather than any embellishment of discourse. --Hume.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disfigurement
       n 1: an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there
            were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's
            back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration" [syn: {disfiguration},
             {deformity}]
       2: the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something;
          "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish
          invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement
          of the landscape" [syn: {defacement}, {disfiguration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "disfigurement":
     birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla,
     cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot,
     clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement,
     defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion,
     dysphemism, fault, flatfoot, flaw, freakishness, freckle,
     gracelessness, harelip, hemangioma, hickey, homeliness, humpback,
     hunchback, ill-favoredness, inelegance, keloid, kink, knock-knee,
     kyphosis, lentigo, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, milium,
     misproportion, misshape, mole, monstrosity, mutilation,
     needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, plainness, pock, pockmark,
     port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar,
     scratch, sebaceous cyst, shapelessness, splayfoot, split,
     strawberry mark, sty, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis,
     track, truncation, twist, uglification, uglifying, ugliness,
     unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness,
     ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness,
     unpleasingness, unprettiness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, valgus,
     verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead,
     wryneck