(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.
Mangle
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.
(v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.
(n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.
(n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Against all sense, their goals all came in a six-minute spell as they mangled a defence billed as the world's best.
(2) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
(3) What so often poisoned their dealings and repeatedly mangled New Labour's effectiveness in its early, popular years was the personal dimension.
(4) This is bad news for aggregators whose digital serfs cut, paste, compile and mangle abstracts of news stories that real media outlets produce at great expense.
(5) Retrospective data suggest that a Mangled Extremity Syndrome Index (M.E.S.I.)
(6) It will now be unfairly blamed on the bill and a bill that is not only mangled and bureaucratic, but also unnecessary."
(7) While all my other questions have been answered, albeit halfheartedly, this one was not fudged or spun or mangled, but simply ignored.
(8) Inside were the mangled seats where two of the pilots had sat.
(9) And a programme on the Northern Ireland hunger strikes that had a rather vivid contribution from Ian Paisley was mangled for fear of it projecting a nasty image of Britain.
(10) It is in the patient's best interest if the emergency department staff assumes that a mangled extremity will be replanted or revascularized.
(11) As the sun set over the cratered fields around Debaltseve, a group of pro-Russia Cossack fighters were retrieving boxes of anti-tank artillery rounds and two armoured vehicles left by Kiev’s forces on the side of the Rostov-Kharkiv highway, which was littered with mangled cars and turret-less tanks.
(12) It was a mangled, distorted reflection of the will of the people perhaps, but that's what it says on the FPTP tin.
(13) The House of Representatives today votes on the Waxman-Markey bill to establish a carbon cap-and-trade system, which shows all the signs of having been through the congressional mangle.
(14) Seventeen patients fit the category of Mangled Extremity Syndrome (M.E.S.).
(15) Graphic photos of Said's mangled face have spread across the internet, prompting protests in Cairo and Alexandria, which have been broken up by the police.
(16) Areas that were once a mass of shattered houses and mangled cars, and boats dragged in by the waves, are now flat, vacant spaces.
(17) The opening points passed in a blizzard of high quality baseline slugging as Murray attacked the Djokovic serve and after 22 brain-manglingly intense minutes the British No1 got his first little nudge in front, breaking serve to go 2-1 up.
(18) "It would seem more logical for the prime minister to refine her vocabulary than for the Macquarie Dictionary to keep changing its definitions every time a politician mangles the English language," Fiona Nash, a senator in Abbott's coalition, said.
(19) A haunting photograph of the pair lying on the ground, the mother’s body badly mangled but one arm still cradling the corpse of her child, was shared on social media and led to another round of both sides loudly blaming the other for the atrocity.
(20) Standing by a mangled corpse of an Isis militant on Wednesday, Jaffar said the Isis Humvees had advanced despite a hail of rocket-propelled grenades fired by the peshmerga.