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Word Meanings - DISFIGURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape,

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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. (more info) dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • BESMEAR
    To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
  • DECORATE
    To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • SIGNALIZE
    1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
  • 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.
  • ORNAMENTAL
    Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • BESMEARER
    One that besmears.
  • DISABLEMENT
    Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.
  • EMBLAZONING
    The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
  • CRIPPLENESS
    Lameness. Johnson.
  • STAIN
    1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
  • 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,
  • STAINLESS
    Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
  • HONOR
    1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
  • 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.
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • MERCHANDISABLE
    Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
  • SELF-DESTROYER
    One who destroys himself; a suicide.
  • SUSTAINABLE
    Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
  • 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.
  • ABSTAIN
    To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;

 

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