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Deturpate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To defile; to disfigure.

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Disfigure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
  • (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More specifically, disfigurement seldom was mentioned as a reason for not returning to work and for not participating in social activities with work mates, friends, relatives, and society in general.
  • (2) These injuries, however, have a profound potential for causing lifelong disability and disfigurement and should be addressed as soon as the patient's condition stabilizes.
  • (3) Trapped on Lampedusa, Fanus tried to burn and disfigure her fingerprints.
  • (4) One mode involves focal overgrowth of membrane bones, producing multiple hyperostoses which result in progressive craniofacial disfigurement and asymmetry.
  • (5) Total amputation of the penis is a disfiguring, and functionally and psychologically disabling injury.
  • (6) The technique allows the removal of these cavities without disfigurement of the head after the brain has been removed.
  • (7) By mandatory seat belt usage laws a significant reduction in deaths, disfiguring injuries, and hospital bed-days would be realized.
  • (8) Superiority of this treatment is attributed to the simplicity of its application and lack of disfigurement and scarring.
  • (9) The advantage of this flap is the donor scar which is less disfiguring than flaps from the anterior chest usually chosen in such cases.
  • (10) Surface measurements of the ear are needed to assess damage in patients with disfigurement or defects of the ears and face.
  • (11) Those who cope poorly have significantly lower self-esteem, which suggests that response to disfiguring diseases is affected by basic ego strength.
  • (12) This may obviate the more serious pathologic changes of advanced disease, especially the disfigurement of chronic and late filariasis.
  • (13) The delay in diagnosis results not only in unique somatic disfigurement but is also associated with significant mental and emotional dysfunction.
  • (14) Details are given about specific diagnoses, disability, disfigurement, discomfort, and the relationship of skin change to environmental and occupational exposure.
  • (15) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
  • (16) In addition, disfiguration of donor sites is eliminated.
  • (17) Surgery of these benign lesions can at times be disfiguring, especially when the lips, muscles, or the maxilla and mandible are involved.
  • (18) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.
  • (19) There was no statistically significant association between depression and burn size or disfigurement.
  • (20) Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, delivered by former model and presenter Katie Piper who was disfigured in a sulphuric acid attack, attracted 500,000 viewers.

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