It swept through the vulnerable native population, leaving behind a few disfigured survivors, and many more mortal remains.
They have been still more disfigured by the corruptions of schismatizing followers.
His fingers crimp and gnarl, turning the hand into a disfigured claw.
V was thrown into a detention center years ago and disfigured by a fire in its experimental lab, and now he seeks revenge.
We went through purely mulatto villages where the people were a baked copper colour, much disfigured by disease.
It could not, however, be said to escape all the defects by which conventional textbooks are commonly disfigured.
Then ropes were tied to his disfigured arms and tightened behind his back until the pain was unbearable.
It was a touching look at eight people who were victims of accidents that made them physically disfigured.
Jeff was born with a double cleft palate and was facially disfigured.
Four years ago, a spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over her head, leaving her blind and disfigured.
British Dictionary definitions for disfigured
disfigure
/dɪsˈfɪɡə/
verb (transitive)
1.
to spoil the appearance or shape of; deface
2.
to mar the effect or quality of
Derived Forms
disfigurer, noun
Word Origin and History for disfigured
disfigure
v.
late 14c., from Old French desfigurer "disfigure, alter, disguise, destroy," from Medieval Latin diffigurare, from Latin dis- (see dis-) + figura "figure," from figurare "to figure" (see figure (n.)). Related: Disfigured; disfiguring.