Synonyms of disfigure

disfigure

verb

dis-ˈfi-gyər 

as in to injure

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the statue was seriously disfigured by falling rubble during the earthquake

Synonyms & Similar Words

• injure
• damage
• mar
• cripple
• hurt
• weaken
• impair
• spoil
• compromise
• erode
• deface
• harm
• destroy
• bloody
• break
• vitiate
• undermine
• ruin
• flaw
• blemish
• cross (up)
• shatter
• deteriorate
• wound
• crab
• tarnish
• enfeeble
• demolish
• devastate
• mutilate
• endamage
• maim
• blight
• wreck
• scour
• batter
• lacerate
• wear (away)
• enervate
• dent
• disable
• smash
• botch
• wash out
• decimate
• annihilate
• torture
• mangle
• torment
• pulverize
• ding
• crush
• raze
• desolate
• gum (up)
• queer
• waste
• clobber
• wipe out
• dint
• scourge
• tear down
• hamstring
• bash
• total
• dash
• do in
• lame
• bang up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reconstruct
• repair
• rebuild
• fix
• patch
• renovate
• help
• mend
• heal
• rehabilitate
• revamp
• cure
• remedy
• rectify
• recondition
• revise
• improve
• enhance
• edit
• enrich
• better
• remodel
• doctor
• perfect
• ameliorate
• refine
• meliorate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of disfigure

Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020. — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 July 2026

The Yellow Death has disfigured the population, and soldiers in white-and-red tunics serve the savage Duke of Tviot. — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

That surgery, which left the boy disfigured, should never have been performed on a patient of that age because the condition naturally resolves in 80% of patients, the medical board said. — Phoebe Quinton, AJC.com, 15 June 2026

The disfiguring bulge in Dinah’s lower face went away. — Stephen King, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026