deform
verb (used with object)
to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure.
has deformed
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present perfectof deform (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Finally, surveys using Global Positioning Satellite measurements of land shifts show that any stress building toward another fault rupture there has deformed the crust in the region very little if at all in recent years.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 25, 2011
His vocation has deformed his body, leaving him with a bony chest and shoulders, arms that are stumpy and weak.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when 300 Long Island, N.Y., veterans, wives and children met at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bay Shore, they exchanged tales of a terror that has deformed their lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clad or bare, the Japanese foot has the antique symmetry: it has not yet been distorted by the infamous foot-gear which has deformed the feet of Occidentals.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
Sickness has deformed him a little, but he’s a shrewd fellow and it only depends upon us to make a gentleman of him.”
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
