Word Meanings - DEFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above
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1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above those passions that this world deform. Thomson.
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- DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - DEFORMATION
1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape. - INJURE
To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander, - SPOIL
1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of - MUTILATE
Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. (more info) 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne. - SPOILER
1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. - SPOILSMAN
One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public - SPOILABLE
Capable of being spoiled. - DEFORMITY
deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an - DAMAGE FEASANT
Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone. - DISFIGURER
One who disfigures. - DEFACER
One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures. - DAMAGEABLE
1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit. - SPOILSMONGER
One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders. - DESTROY
destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy - INJURER
One who injures or wrongs. - SPOILFUL
Wasteful; rapacious. - DAMAGE
The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges - DEFORM
1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - INDAMAGED
Not damaged. Milton. - TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat. - ENDAMAGE
To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton. - ENDAMAGEMENT
Damage; injury; harm. Shak. - ENDAMAGEABLE
Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. - DESPOIL
despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. Chaucer. 2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed