Dictionary entry

Disfigure

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐fig″ure (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Disfigured (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Disfiguring.] [OF. desfigurer, F. défigurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See Figure, and cf. Defiguration.] 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.