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Deform vs Defeature - What's the difference?

deform | defeature |

As verbs the difference between deform and defeature

is that deform is to change the form of, negatively while defeature is to deform.

As an adjective deform

is deformed, misshapen.

As a noun defeature is

defeat, overthrow, ruin.

deform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To change the form of, negatively.
  • To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
    • a face deformed by bitterness
  • To mar the character of.
    • a marriage deformed by jealousy
  • To alter the shape of by stress.
  • To become misshapen or changed in shape.

    • Synonyms

    * distort, contort, warp

    Derived terms

    * deformable * deformation

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • who so kild that monster most deforme , / And him in hardy battaile ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame [...].

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    * English ergative verbs

    defeature

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

  • Defeat, overthrow, ruin.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (featur)
  • (lb) To deform.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.
  • * (rfdate) , The Comedy of Errors , act ii, scene 1
    • What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures .