Crossword clues for deform
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deform \De*form"\, a. [L. deformis; de- + forma form: cf. OF. deforme, F. difforme. Cf. Difform.] Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid. [Obs.]
Sight so deform what heart of rock could long
Dry-eyed behold?
--Milton.
Deform \De*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Deformed; p. pr. & vb. n. Deforming.] [L. deformare; de- + formare to form, shape, fr. forma: cf. F. d['e]former. See Form.]
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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world.
--Shak. -
To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.
Above those passions that this world deform.
--Thomson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) deformed, misshapen. v
1 (context transitive English) To change the form of, negatively. 2 (context transitive English) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure. 3 (context transitive English) To mar the character of. 4 (context transitive English) To alter the shape of by stress. 5 (context intransitive English) To become misshapen or changed in shape.
WordNet
v. make formless; "the heat deformed the plastic sculpture" [ant: form]
cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar" [syn: flex, bend, twist, turn] [ant: unbend]
become misshapen; "The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake"
alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy" [syn: distort, strain]
assume a different shape or form [syn: change shape, change form]
Usage examples of "deform".
And instead of a mad Amishman drowning women, there was now a mad but grossly deformed Amishman living among the hay bales who was terrified of anyone entering his secret domain.
These, in the court, meet with Amorphus, or the deformed, a traveller that hath drunk of the fountain, and there tells the wonders of the water.
The insane, deformed, animalistic duggers were formed by the same process.
But he was not prepared for this cheerful recognition that there was a hideously deformed person living in the forest surrounding them, this open acknowledgment that there was a freak who spent his days skulking along the green belts of Bonita Vista--and that apparently everyone knew about it.
As I think of Vaughan I see him in the stolen cars he drove and damaged, the surfaces of deformed metal and plastic that for ever embraced him.
I visualized the fantasies of contented paedophiliacs, hiring the deformed bodies of children injured in crashes, assuaging and irrigating their wounds with their own scarred genital organs, of elderly pederasts easing their tongues into the simulated anuses of colostomized juveniles.
In looking at the fine proportions of their faces one forgets their deformed bodies.
Her features were of that exquisite sensibility which gives so much charm to the fair sex, but nature had given her a beautiful body and a deformed soul.
His nocturnal bathing has not cured his hypertrichosis, the extremely rare birth defect that causes babylike hair to cover his body, and continues its cruelty by adding a deformed face, abnormal teeth and stunted genitalia.
It occurs to Ken Erdedy, looking up into the oak past his upraised hands, that this deformed veiled girl likes Don Gately in an extracurricular way, it would seem.
Within the starship, under the influence of a drive field that is literally deforming the surrounding continuum in order to push the ship through the space-time fabric at nonrelativistic speeds, light waves will be subjected to extreme stress.
D-One squinting, looking at the attorney as one might a deformed paramecium under a microscope.
The thick wet petals of its face slapped and clutched at me like deformed hands, and I saw that the underside of each petallike flap was tined with prickly thorns.
Where they found the body to be taken away, and a black Cat very lean and deformed sitting in the coffin, setting of great Ruffs, and frizzling of hair, to the great fear and wonder of all beholders.
The traditional masks, as Chee had seen them at Zuni Shalako ceremonials, were round, clay-colored, and deformed with bumps.