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Disfigure vs Deform - What's the difference?

disfigure | deform |

As verbs the difference between disfigure and deform

is that disfigure is change the appearance of something/someone to the negative while deform is to change the form of, negatively.

As an adjective deform is

deformed, misshapen.

disfigure

English

Verb

(disfigur)
  • Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.
    • The burnings disfigured his face.

    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 [...].

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs