disfigurement

disfigurement
Synonyms and related words:
birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla, cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot, clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion, dysphemism, fault, flatfoot, flaw, freakishness, freckle, gracelessness, harelip, hemangioma, hickey, homeliness, humpback, hunchback, ill-favoredness, inelegance, keloid, kink, knock-knee, kyphosis, lentigo, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, milium, misproportion, misshape, mole, monstrosity, mutilation, needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, plainness, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shapelessness, splayfoot, split, strawberry mark, sty, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis, track, truncation, twist, uglification, uglifying, ugliness, unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness, ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness, unpleasingness, unprettiness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, valgus, verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead, wryneck

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  • Disfigurement — is the state of having one s appearance deeply and persistently harmed medically, as from a disease, birth defect, or wound. Disfigurement, whether caused by a benign or malignant condition, often leads to severe psychosocial problems such as… …   Wikipedia

  • Disfigurement — Dis*fig ure*ment, n. 1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. [1913 Webster] Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • disfigurement — index defacement, flaw Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • disfigurement — 1630s, from DISFIGURE (Cf. disfigure) + MENT (Cf. ment) …   Etymology dictionary

  • disfigurement — [dis fig′yə rā′shəndis fig′yərmənt] n. 1. a disfiguring or being disfigured 2. anything that disfigures; blemish; defect; deformity: Also disfiguration [dis fig′yə rā′shən] …   English World dictionary

  • disfigurement — [[t]dɪsfɪ̱gə(r)mənt, AM gjər [/t]] disfigurements N VAR: oft supp N A disfigurement is something, for example a scar, that spoils a person s appearance. He had surgery to correct a facial disfigurement. Syn: blemish …   English dictionary

  • disfigurement — noun 1) the disfigurement of Victorian buildings Syn: defacement, spoiling, scarring, uglification, mutilation, damage, vandalizing, ruin 2) a permanent facial disfigurement Syn: blemish, flaw, defect …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • disfigurement — That which impairs or injures the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of a person or thing; that which renders unsightly, misshapen, or imperfect, or deforms in some manner. Superior Mining Co. v Industrial Com. 309 Ill 339, 141 NE 165. A change of… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • disfigurement — disfigure ► VERB ▪ spoil the appearance of. DERIVATIVES disfiguration noun disfigurement noun …   English terms dictionary

  • disfigurement — noun 1. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion he objected to the dam s massive disfigurement of the landscape • Syn: ↑defacement, ↑disfiguration • Derivationally …   Useful english dictionary

  • disfigurement — noun see disfigure …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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