deform
verb (used with object)
to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure.
deforms
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present tense formof deform (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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This alloy softens and deforms at relatively low temperatures — around 500 F — well below the intensity of a typical house fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
In other words, energy is lost to heat in the material because it deforms in the contact cycle: It is compressed when making contact and expands during release.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024
But if you make the walls too thin, your jack-o’-lantern’s fangs will become inward-curving skin tabs as the pulp desiccates and deforms.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2022
Magma forcing its way through rock generates distinctive types of earthquakes, deforms the land as it ascends and unleashes noxious gases.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
Sawney has humour enough to be amused by the writhing apprehension of dry and lean fare which deforms the well-fed and jocund face of the bacon-bolter.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
