disfigure
pronunciation
How to pronounce disfigure in British English:
UK [dɪsˈfɪɡə(r)]
How to pronounce disfigure in American English:
US [dɪsˈfɪɡjər]
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- Verb:
- mar or spoil the appearance of
Word Origin
- disfigure (v.)
- late 14c., from Old French desfigurer "disfigure, alter, disguise, destroy," from Medieval Latin diffigurare, from Latin dis- (see dis-) + figura "figure," from figurare "to figure" (see figure (n.)). Related: Disfigured; disfiguring.
Example
- 1. Some local citizens think that dredges do awful harm to the landscapes as they disfigure rivers and banks .
- 2. To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of ; disfigure .
- 3. And when you fast , do not look dismal , like the hypocrites , for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men .
- 4. And when you fast , do not be like the sullen-faced hypocrites , for they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to be fasting .
- 5. When ye fast , be not , as the hypocrites , of a sad countenance : for they disfigure their faces , that they may appear unto men to fast .