[syn: defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disfigurement \Dis*fig"ure*ment\, n.
1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured;
deformity. --Milton.
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2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
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Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement
rather than any embellishment of discourse. --Hume.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disfigurement
n 1: an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there
were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back";
"suffering from facial disfiguration" [syn:
disfigurement, disfiguration, deformity]
2: the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something;
"the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish
invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of
the landscape" [syn: defacement, disfigurement,
disfiguration]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "disfigurement":
birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla,
cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot,
clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement,
defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion,
dysphemism, fault, flatfoot, flaw, freakishness, freckle,
gracelessness, harelip, hemangioma, hickey, homeliness, humpback,
hunchback, ill-favoredness, inelegance, keloid, kink, knock-knee,
kyphosis, lentigo, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, milium,
misproportion, misshape, mole, monstrosity, mutilation,
needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, plainness, pock, pockmark,
port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar,
scratch, sebaceous cyst, shapelessness, splayfoot, split,
strawberry mark, sty, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis,
track, truncation, twist, uglification, uglifying, ugliness,
unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness,
ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness,
unpleasingness, unprettiness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, valgus,
verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead,
wryneck