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disfigured

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verb

past tense of disfigure

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Recent Examples of disfigured
Adjective
Those who survived the disease were often left disfigured and scarred. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2026 In a particularly gnarly flashback, one sibling voluntarily — and crudely — amputates his fingers to match his brother's disfigured hand, which lost two digits when Angier shot him. Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026 The bodies had signs of binding the hands and feet, contortion of limbs, cut off fingertips and disfigured heads, according to Kaki. ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025 He’s inspired by the antics of Angus Oblong, the mastermind of The Oblongs, an Adult Swim show that centered around a disfigured family living in an area plagued by radiation. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
Helen’s famous face has been disfigured, presumably by her angry husband, Menelaus; the sorceress Circe uses her witchcraft in self-defense, seemingly as a result of traumatic encounters with men. Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 17 July 2026 Helen’s face is shown to be disfigured as well, due to supposedly an attack in the Trojan War. Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026 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 attack permanently disfigured Ruby and left both her daughters, who tried their hardest to save their mother as just two teeny-tiny girls, with scars of their own. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 May 2026 Thatcher plays disfigured, suicidal young protagonist P Burke who is hired by a mega tech corporation to virtually operate a beautiful but brainless ‘flesh body’ called Delphi, grown in a lab with the sole purpose of influencing the masses and selling products. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 6 May 2026 The state largely clamped down on exotic pet ownership after the 2009 chimpanzee attack on Charla Nash in a home in Stamford, which left her permanently blind and disfigured. Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disfigured
Adjective
  • The artifacts included eight deformed sickles, one intact sickle, part of a sword blade, ornament fragments, three ingots and two unfinished objects.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Such weather favored flowering, and Chow responded by pruning to prevent deformed or small fruit while stepping up watering and fertilization because of the heat.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • After greeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US envoy was taken on a tour of a cathedral in central Kyiv damaged in Russian attacks.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The second one came out of the printer damaged, with a big scratch on it.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The standard medical terms clinicians rely on may become distorted or polluted.
    Frank Naeymi-Rad, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • La Nueva Violencia is a smirking, libidinous play for the dance floor, picking up where the distorted guitars of the last record left off and channeling each new riff into sleazy post-punk and electroclash that stick to the body like sweaty velvet.
    Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Darnold injured his right hip, and there is no timetable for his return, the team announced.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Among the seven injured was a woman who was visiting her husband, said Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the Houthi-run health ministry.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Yet Na also insists on treating his aliens as objects of contemplation and pathos—reflections of our own misshapen humanity.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The rhythmic movement of my hands, the gentle scraping sounds of metal on metal, and the slow, satisfying growth of a misshapen rectangle between my fingers got me out of my head and grounded in the room around me.
    Laura Bradley, HEALTH, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The tenures of the two subsequent chief baseball executives, Billy Eppler and Minasian, were marred by Moreno’s intrusions, sources said.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Amnesty International had called on the Court of Cassation to overturn the convictions, describing the case as politically motivated and saying the trial was marred by due process and other violations.
    ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • When his insidious nature is revealed, the change in tone and his face gone malformed, the scene feels dynamic in a way that doesn’t require gore or intricate special effects.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Surgeries to correct a seriously malformed heart like Gabriel/Rumi’s are risky.
    Arthur L. Caplan, STAT, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The security law has crippled Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement since its enactment in 2020, with many activists being jailed under it.
    Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • In 2022, officials condemned Iran for a cyberattack that crippled Albania's government services.
    Ramy Inocencio, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

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“Disfigured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfigured. Accessed 10 Sep. 2026.

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