Disfigurement
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; blemish; defacement; change of external form for the worse.
noun.
Something that disfigures.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.
noun.
That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
The result of
disfiguring
; the state of being disfigured;
defacement
;
deformity
;
disfiguration
.
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noun.
an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
noun.
the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Word Usage
"Theodore Bernstein 's 1965 tome "The Careful Writer," dedicates two pages to omitting articles, which he called a "disfigurement of the language.""