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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deformed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a deformed foot
▪ She had survived polio, but her right leg was weak and deformed.
▪ The desert plants were strange deformed bushes with bizarrely twisted branches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Affected babies are small, deformed and brain damaged.
▪ Babies are born deformed or with leukaemia.
▪ Examine filthy battered weekend trousers and deformed suede shoes.
▪ Figuring out the structure of the deformed beds requires information about the geometric attitude or orientation of the beds at outcrops.
▪ Remove any which are weak, deformed or diseased, concentrating on those which appear healthy.
▪ The tight ranks wavered and melted before the driving spearhead, even though it was now sadly deformed and its speed slackened.
▪ Their sense of inner emptiness and fear is projected outwards in deformed relationships and actions.
▪ This is the material description: we are following the particle Xi from its initial position to its deformed one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deformed

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.]

  1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

    Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world.
    --Shak.

  2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.

    Above those passions that this world deform.
    --Thomson.

Deformed

Deformed \De*formed"\, a. Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.

Wiktionary
deformed
  1. Unusual of shape; misshapen. v

  2. (en-past of: deform)

WordNet
deformed

adj. so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers" [syn: distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen]

Usage examples of "deformed".

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.

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.

He had appeared there so furtively that the Snows, interested in the deformed one, had been unaware of his presence.