DISFIGURED

disfigured

(adjective) having the appearance spoiled; “a disfigured face”; “strip mining left a disfigured landscape”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

disfigured

simple past tense and past participle of disfigure

Source: Wiktionary


DISFIGURE

Dis*fig"ure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disfigured; p. pr. & vb. n. Disfiguring.] Etym: [OF. desfigurer, F. défigurer; pref. des- (L. dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape, fr. L. figurare, fr. figura figure. See Figure, and cf. Defiguration.]

Definition: 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.

Dis*fig"ure, n.

Definition: Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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