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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disfigure \Dis*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Disfigured}; p. pr & vb n. {Disfiguring}.] [OF.
desfigurer, F. d['e]figurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer
to fashion, shape, fr L. figurare, fr figura figure. See
{Figure}, and cf {Defiguration}.]
To mar the figure of to render less complete, perfect, or
beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own
--Milton.
Syn: To deface; deform; mar; injure.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
disfigured
adj : having the appearance spoiled; "a disfigured face"; "strip
mining left a disfigured landscape"
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