Disfigure \Dis*fig"ure\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disfigured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disfiguring}.] [OF. desfigurer, F. d['e]figurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See {Figure}, and cf. {Defiguration}.] To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. --Milton.
Syn: To deface; deform; mar; injure.
Disfigure \Dis*fig"ure\, n. Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Cancers in the body politic - even in the smallest community - disfigure and threaten the whole.
They also destroy or disfigure the landscape with their mounds.
Others may have learning disabilities, scoliosis - a spinal curvature - other skeletal defects or tumors that disfigure every part of their body.
A better partnership, long overdue, between central and local government might be established. Everyone would like to see the back of the so-called cardboard cities which disfigure city centres.