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[syn: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Deform \De*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deformed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Deforming.] [L. deformare; de- + formare to form, shape,
fr. forma: cf. F. d['e]former. See Form.]
1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to
disfigure.
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Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world. --Shak.
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2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or
perfection; to dishonor.
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Above those passions that this world deform.
--Thomson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Deformed \De*formed"\, a.
Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity;
misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed
head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
deformed
adj 1: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed
thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-
shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot";
"misshapen old fingers" [syn: deformed, distorted,
ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "deformed":
abnormal, awry, bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, bent, bizarre,
blemished, bloated, bowlegged, cacogenic, checked, cicatrized,
club-footed, contorted, cracked, crazed, crippled, crooked,
defaced, defective, disfigured, distorted, dwarfed, faulty,
flatfooted, flawed, freak, freakish, gargoylish, gnarled,
grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, keloidal,
kinked, knock-kneed, lame, malformed, marred, misbegotten,
misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape,
perverted, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, pug-nosed, rachitic,
rickety, rococo, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, shapeless,
simous, snub-nosed, split, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic,
teratogenic, teratoid, truncated, twisted, unshapely, warped