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disfigured

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verb

past tense of disfigure

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Recent Examples of disfigured
Adjective
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
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 Iran's new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is severely disfigured after sustaining leg and face injuries during initial airstrikes on Tehran in February, Reuters reported earlier this week. Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 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 The bodies were that disfigured. NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disfigured
Adjective
  • Its deformed and empty boxes appeared to have been crushed under a landslide of green checks.
    Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Nicola said three of the four turkeys were rescue animals with deformed feet that had been sitting on eggs when they were taken.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Residential buildings were badly damaged in the assault, leaving people trapped in multi-story apartment blocks and an entire family that was killed pulled from the rubble, while cars were seen burning on city streets.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • As a bonus, those seasons are ideal for planting a replacement shrub or re-establishing a lawn if it is damaged during the shrub removal.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Adjective
  • In many cases, Kallis said, the roots of this behavior were planted long before, frequently through trauma, abuse, isolation, addiction or distorted coping mechanisms that were never confronted or healed.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Letting go of these items leads to regret for the loss of nostalgia and passing on true history for a distorted version.
    Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • More than 300 people have been injured and 35 others killed in recent US strikes against Iran, the country’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • The team said that forward Mouhamed Gueye injured his left foot in an offseason workout last Wednesday.
    Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
Adjective
  • Baby carrots aren't just a marketing gimmick or a way to get kids to eat their vegetables—they were originally developed as a way to make good use of misshapen or imperfect carrots.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 6 July 2026
  • But her sister’s head was grievously misshapen.
    New York Times, New York Times, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • He was elected in a landslide in July 2024, but quit after two years in office marred by missteps and judgment errors that eroded his standing with his party and the public.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
  • Their campaign was marred by collapsing late in games, including blowing multiple double-digit leads.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Adjective
  • Sensitive data appears in unstructured documents, malformed files, collaboration tools and AI workflows that summarize, transform and combine information.
    Asaf Kochan, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Cinematographer Mátyás Erdély’s gaslamp wash makes the whole thing visually alluring, but the story up to this point is one of malformed double entendres, as Moulin and his cohorts react to more important plots unfolding elsewhere in the war.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 May 2026
Verb
  • Data loss via staff cuts Widespread staff cuts starting in early 2025 across the Department of Health and Human Services, which houses the CDC, crippled much of the agency’s data collection and dissemination.
    John Kubale, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • In the nation’s gravest hour, the country’s authoritarian regime has crippled an effective response, say survivors, rescue workers and former officials.
    Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 1 July 2026

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“Disfigured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfigured. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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