Disfiguration

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of disfiguring or marring the external form of; defacement.
  • noun. The state of being disfigured; disfigurement; deformity.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.
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  • noun. The act of disfiguring, spoiling the appearance of something or someone; the state of being disfigured.
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  • noun. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
  • noun. an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
    • Word Usage
    "Working from that information, Liebold said, investigators can look for clues in that section of the structure, such as disfiguration in steel beams or specific damage to concrete floors that would suggest temperatures reaching higher than 1,000 degrees."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    appearance  damage  harm  hurt  scathe  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abrasiveness  disfigurement  exorbitance  falling-off  foreignness  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    defacement  deformity  disfigurement  
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