Deworms vs Deforms - What's the difference?
deworms | deforms |
(deworm)
To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs.
(deform)
To change the form of, negatively.
To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.
To mar the character of.
To alter the shape of by stress.
To become misshapen or changed in shape.
(obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
As verbs the difference between deworms and deforms
is that deworms is (deworm) while deforms is (deform).deworms
English
Verb
(head)deworm
English
Verb
(en verb)- Hey, Ethel, you know it's your turn to deworm the cat?
Anagrams
*deforms
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*deform
English
Verb
(en verb)- a face deformed by bitterness
- a marriage deformed by jealousy
Synonyms
* distort, contort, warpDerived terms
* deformable * deformationAdjective
(en adjective)- who so kild that monster most deforme , / And him in hardy battaile ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame [...].