| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | dis·fig·ure |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d s-fg y r |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: dis·fig·ured, dis·fig·ur·ing, dis·fig·ures
To mar or spoil the appearance or shape of; deform. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English disfiguren, from Old French desfigurer : des-, dis- + figure, figure (from Latin fig ra, shape; see dheigh- in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | dis·fig u·ration, dis·figure·ment —NOUN
dis·figur·er —NOUN
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