deform
verb (used with object)
to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure.
had deformed
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past perfectof deform.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Decades ago researchers knocked out the genes that control early steps in gibberellin synthesis, but the result was plants that had deformed flowers and abnormal ears.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023
“Many had deformed hoofs and were infected with herpes. Several mothers had aborted their pregnancies from stress. We found at least 19 fetuses, but counting was difficult—they were small and had started decomposing.”
From National Geographic ● Sep. 22, 2017
Cuadrilla had failed to inform Hendry that an earthquake caused by is operations had deformed the casing on its well and he questioned Cuadrilla's "performance as a licensee".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2013
He—he of all men—who by his disloyalty had brought on her this monstrous birth that had deformed her fate!
From The Judge by Rebecca West
The quaint ingenuity which had deformed the verses of Donne, and had been a blemish on those of Cowley, disappeared from our poetry.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
