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Deworms vs Deforms - What's the difference?

deworms | deforms |

As verbs the difference between deworms and deforms

is that deworms is (deworm) while deforms is (deform).

deworms

English

Verb

(head)
  • (deworm)

  • deworm

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs.
  • Hey, Ethel, you know it's your turn to deworm the cat?

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    deforms

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deform)
  • Anagrams

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    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 [...].