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disfigured

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verb

past tense of disfigure

Example Sentences

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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
  • The suicide attack on Friday brought down an outer wall of the police offices and badly damaged the mosque.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Aid groups warn more than three-quarters of Gaza’s housing stock is damaged, thousands of buildings are at risk of collapse, and residents grow especially vulnerable when winter rains seep into weakened structures.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The shoegaze sound keeps evolving, as young artists keep hearing themselves in those mega-distorted waves of guitar fuzz.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Hanlen acknowledged the political attention Cunningham has attracted and suggested the public often receives a distorted impression of her.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • After two unsuccessful attempts to restore engine power, the NTSB report said, the pilot ejected at 3,000 feet above sea level and was seriously injured.
    — Jenny Jarvie Follow, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • An 18-year-old was arrested Tuesday, two days after two boys were killed and two women were injured in a DeKalb County shooting, police said.
    — Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • This vast misshapen island was traditionally noted for ghosts, folktales, eccentricity, fish, and friendliness.
    — Paul Theroux, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The show notes describe the opening hoodies and sweatpants as deliberately misshapen, with an oversized silhouette and heavy jackets worn open.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The episode was marred some by a glitch in the show’s voting system; viewers weren’t able to choose their favorites on the DWTS website and had to vote by text.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Another interesting option is Yetur Gross-Matos, whose recent stint with the 49ers was marred by a knee issue.
    — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 15 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
  • Swaney founded WatchUr6, a cybersecurity company, in 2022 after seeing news reports about a hospital crippled by a cyberattack.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Our protagonist has been crippled with doubts about the miller’s daughter and prone to emotional highs and lows.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Disfigured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfigured. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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