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Deform
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- 1 Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.
"[…] I did proclame, / That vvho ſo kild that monſter moſt deforme, / And him in hardy battayle ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame, and of my kingdome heyre apparaunt bee: […]"
- 1 To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape. transitive
"I that am curtaild of this faire proportion / Cheated of feature by diſſembling nature, / Deformd, vnfinisht, ſent before my time / Into this breathing vvorld ſcarce halfe made vp, / And that ſo lamely and vnfaſhionable, / That dogs barke at me as I halt by them: […]"
- 2 assume a different shape or form wordnet
- 3 To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.; To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress. transitive
- 4 alter the shape of (something) by stress wordnet
- 5 To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance. also, figuratively, transitive
"a face deformed by bitterness"
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- 6 become misshapen wordnet
- 7 To mar the character or quality of (something). transitive
"a marriage deformed by jealousy"
- 8 cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form wordnet
- 9 To become changed in shape or misshapen. intransitive
"If I answer that metal’s hard and shiny and cold to the touch and deforms without breaking under blows from a harder material, [David] Hume says those are all sights and sounds and touch. There’s no substance. Tell me what metal is apart from these sensations. Then, of course, I’m stuck."
- 10 twist and press out of shape wordnet
- 11 make formless wordnet
Etymology
PIE word *de From Middle English deforme (“out of shape, deformed”) [and other forms], from Middle French deforme (modern French difforme (“misshapen, deformed”)), or directly from its etymon Latin dēfōrmis (“departing physically from the correct shape, deformed, malformed, misshapen, ugly; (figuratively) departing morally from the correct quality, base, disgraceful, shameful, unbecoming”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; from’) + fōrma (“form, appearance, figure, shape; fine form, beauty; design, outline, plan; model, pattern; mould, stamp; (figuratively) kind, manner, sort”) (further etymology unknown; perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape; appearance; outline; kind, type”), probably from Pre-Greek, but there is no consensus) + -is (suffix forming adjectives of the third declension).
From Middle English deformen (“to disfigure, distort, or mar; (figuratively) to disfigure morally; to defame; to dishonour”) [and other forms], equivalent to de- + form, from Old French deformer [and other forms] (modern French déformer (“to contort, distort, twist out of shape; (figuratively) to pervert”)), or directly from its etymon Latin dēfōrmāre (whence Medieval Latin difformāre), the present active infinitive of dēfōrmō (“to fashion, form; to delineate, describe; to design; to deform, disfigure; to mar, spoil”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; from’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, shape; to format”) (from fōrma (noun); see further at etymology 1). Cognates * Catalan deformar (“to deform”) * Italian deformare (“to deform; to distort, warp”) * Occitan deformar * Portuguese deformar (“to deform”) * Spanish deformar, desformar (“to deform, disfigure”)
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