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Misform vs Deform - What's the difference?

misform | deform |

As verbs the difference between misform and deform

is that misform is to form badly or wrongly while deform is to change the form of, negatively.

As an adjective deform is

deformed, misshapen.

misform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To form badly or wrongly.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    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