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Deform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Disfigured; being of an unnatural, distorted, or disproportioned form; displeasing to the eye.

2. Sight so deform what heart of rock could long

3. Dry-eyed behold?

Deform [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To mar or injure the form; to alter that form or disposition of parts which is natural and esteemed beautiful, and thus to render it displeasing to the eye; to disfigure; as, a hump on the back deforms the body.

2. To render ugly or displeasing, by exterior applications or appendages; as, to deform the face by paint, or the person by unbecoming dress.

3. To render displeasing.

4. Wintry blasts deform the year.

5. To injure and render displeasing or disgusting; to disgrace; to disfigure moral beauty; as, all vices deform the character of rational beings.

6. To dishonor; to make ungraceful.

Deform [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.

Deform [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.

Deformation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A disfiguring or defacing.

Deformation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

2. Transformation; change of shape.

Deformed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Injured in the form; disfigured; distorted; ugly; wanting natural beauty, or symmetry.

2. Base; disgraceful.

Deformed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.

Deformed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Deform

Deformedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In an ugly manner.

Deformedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ugliness; a disagreeable or unnatural form.

Deformer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who deforms.

Deformer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who deforms.

Deforming [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Marring the natural form or figure; rendering ugly or disppleasing; destroying beauty.

Deforming [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Deform

Deformities [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Deformity

Deformity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any unnatural state of the shape or form; want of that uniformity or symmetry which constitutes beauty; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; disproportion of limbs; defect; crookedness, etc. Hence, ugliness; as bodily deformity

2. Any thing that destroys beauty, grace or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order, or the established laws of propriety. Thus we speak of deformity in an edifice, or deformity of character.

Deformity [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

2. Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.