as in to disfigure
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The trouble is, the new growth is highly susceptible to a disfiguring disease called Entomosporium leaf spot.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
10 Mar. 2026 -
Hollenbeck and Watkins were reacting to the news outlets’ series, which examined allegations of disfiguring injuries or even deaths tied to cosmetic surgeries.—
Fred Schulte,
NBC news,
10 Mar. 2026
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Every character — from Miles Caton’s rebellious guitarist and Jack O’Connell’s lilting vampire to Wunmi Mosaku’s soulful witch and Michael B. Jordan’s bootlegging twins Smoke and Stack — has been scarred by life in 1930s Mississippi.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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First, this species was already known to repair its skin wounds without any sign of scarring.—
Mallory Locklear,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
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This exclusion protects the home warranty company from homeowners who may try to get replacements for appliances or home system components by defacing or damaging them purposefully.—
Dan Simms,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Last summer, Zeevi, who owns an HVAC company in San Jose, told KTVU that the vans at his shop were defaced with swastikas.—
Lucy Hodgman,
San Francisco Chronicle,
10 Mar. 2026
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Mexico's government has said that the official registry of disappeared is an overcount, often marred by faulty data from local prosecutor's offices and cases of people being reported missing two or three times.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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But his first year in Philly was marred by knee and adductor injuries that resulted in the forward having one of the worst years of his NBA career.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Uglify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uglify. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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