disfiguring

present participle of disfigure

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disfiguring Killing or seriously disfiguring a neighbor's plants can be grounds for a court battle. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025 Is God Is marks Harris’ feature directorial debut, and stars Kara Young (Virgo) and Mallori Johnson (Kindred) as twin African-American sisters who were burned badly as babies in a fire that left them with permanent, disfiguring scars. Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2025 Here's everything to know about the parasite The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum suspects is disfiguring her face. Jordana Comiter, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disfiguring
Verb
  • Avoid using excessive water to prevent damaging the floors.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Boston comes in with three straight losses marring otherwise agreeable vibes.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Last week, a 23-year-old opened fire outside a church at a Minneapolis Catholic school, killing two children and injuring 19 other people before dying by suicide.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Parollee Dawain Hopson lived a free life for about five weeks before landing back behind bars, this time for allegedly stabbing two people to death at a Detroit pool party over the summer and injuring two others with the same knife.
    Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Thomas’ absence has been crippling for the Giants in recent years.
    Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
  • More importantly, if just one lock were disabled or destroyed, the passage from east to west would be essentially inoperable, crippling the United States and its military defenses.
    Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Disfiguring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disfiguring. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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