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the statue was seriously disfigured by falling rubble during the earthquake
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Recent Examples of disfigured
ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025
For his role as Erik, the disfigured organist who haunts the catacombs of the Paris opera house, Chaney underwent a dramatic — and painful — transformation that involved pulling back his nostrils with piano wire to create a skeletal look.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 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
NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
Chatfield State Park has been damaged, disfigured, and stripped of healthy trees, over 6,000, with more to die.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
In 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko, running against a Russian favourite, was left permanently disfigured by a dioxin attack.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026
The incident left her face disfigured and her throat burned.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Ikram, now 26, survived the attack but was blinded in her right eye and permanently disfigured.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
Born from Raimi’s desire to make a movie about pulp hero the Shadow before he was denied the rights by Universal, Darkman is an original creation, starring Liam Neeson as a scientist who is disfigured in a mob attack and given superpowers thanks to an experimental treatment.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
This Upper Paleolithic burial even became famous, though puzzling to researchers, because the unusual skeletal remains were even disfigured.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
Without their intervention, Baltimore’s waterfront would have been permanently disfigured, and the waterfront promenade the author praises today would never have been possible.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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
For his role as Erik, the disfigured organist who haunts the catacombs of the Paris opera house, Chaney underwent a dramatic — and painful — transformation that involved pulling back his nostrils with piano wire to create a skeletal look.
—Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 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
The bodies were that disfigured.
—NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
Chatfield State Park has been damaged, disfigured, and stripped of healthy trees, over 6,000, with more to die.
—Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
In 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yuschenko, running against a Russian favourite, was left permanently disfigured by a dioxin attack.
—The Week Uk, TheWeek, 17 Feb. 2026
The incident left her face disfigured and her throat burned.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
Ikram, now 26, survived the attack but was blinded in her right eye and permanently disfigured.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
Born from Raimi’s desire to make a movie about pulp hero the Shadow before he was denied the rights by Universal, Darkman is an original creation, starring Liam Neeson as a scientist who is disfigured in a mob attack and given superpowers thanks to an experimental treatment.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
This Upper Paleolithic burial even became famous, though puzzling to researchers, because the unusual skeletal remains were even disfigured.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
Without their intervention, Baltimore’s waterfront would have been permanently disfigured, and the waterfront promenade the author praises today would never have been possible.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disfigured
Adjective
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Central Park, for instance, has been reduced to a small, deformed square.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Jan. 2026
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As a result, his vocals have a kind of stately yet starry-eyed quality, giving structure to these deformed, cosmic beats from the internet abyss.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Protesters also burned a police station and damaged a school and the offices of a local charity in Gilgit, according to officials.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Mar. 2026
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Of what could be seen, however, open source intelligence analysts identified the IRIS Sahand, IRIS Sabalan, and IRIS Zagros as damaged, and the IRIS Makran as heavily damaged.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The team is running detailed simulations to understand how the system performs when signals are weak or distorted.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Feb. 2026
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Scholars of immigration, media and criminal law say such a media campaign is unprecedented and paints a distorted picture of immigrants and crime.—
Huo Jingnan,
NPR,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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No one was injured and no weapons were found.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The country's Prosecutor General's office said four people were injured.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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After years of pruning, the shrub may be misshapen and will never look attractive again.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2026
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Some reels were rusted and misshapen, pieces of nitrate had crumbled, and other strips were stuck together.—
Eric Henderson,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The issue, which can arise within minutes, is that no matter how careful, how neurotic, how cautious someone is, inevitably the shiny piano black plastic trim gets scratched, knicked, and or marred rapidly as a car is used.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Democratic contest was marred by voting issues affecting the state’s second-largest county, which caused confusion around ballot eligibility.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Now imagine that instead of writing tweets, a malformed AI model would be producing military advice or making military decisions.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026
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The Port of San Diego is promoting a fundraiser supporting a Harbor Police officer recovering from a medical emergency caused by malformed blood vessels in his brain.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The kingdom has suffered the fallout from regional conflicts before, most notably during a 2019 attack on its Abqaiq processing facility — claimed by Iran’s Houthi allies — that briefly crippled its output.—
Salma El Wardany,
Fortune,
28 Feb. 2026
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Ordinary Iranians objected to the country’s intrusive authoritarian system, an economy crippled by devastating international sanctions intended to coerce the regime to curb its nuclear program, and the mullahs’ preoccupation with international affairs.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Disfigured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfigured. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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