disfigure
verb (used with object)
to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface.
have disfigured
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present perfectof disfigure.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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No one building can undo the dispiriting effect of bad architecture, overwrought security and the soulless corporate-academic campus of George Washington University that have disfigured the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2015
Once permanent glues have disfigured a fabric, she said, “You just have to enjoy what’s left.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2013
“We’ve had enough,” Edward Ray, the president of Oregon State and the N.C.A.A. executive committee chairman, said of the ethical lapses that have disfigured big-time college sports in recent years.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2012
"They are a reminder of the recklessness and greed that have disfigured the banking industry as a whole," said Clegg, whose ratings have soared in opinion polls.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2010
Carelessness, prepossessions, and ignorance have disfigured them with false colors and foreign additions without number.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Daniel Garrison Brinton
