Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To alter from proper or natural form; misshape.
- intransitive verb To spoil the beauty or appearance of; disfigure: synonym: distort.
- intransitive verb Physics To alter the shape of by pressure or stress.
- intransitive verb To become deformed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To change or alter the form of; convert into a new form or shape.
- Specifically To mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure, as by malformation of a limb or some other part of the body.
- To render ugly, ungraceful, or displeasing; mar the beauty of; spoil: as, to
deform the person by unbecoming dress; to deform the character by vicious conduct. - Disfigured; being of an unnatural, distorted, or disproportioned form; displeasing to the eye.
- To form; fashion; delineate; engrave.
- In geometry, to bend without stretching or tearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.
- transitive verb To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
- transitive verb To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To remove the
form of. - verb transitive To remove the
looks of; todisfigure ; as, a face deformed by bitterness. - verb transitive To
mar thecharacter of; as, a marriage deformed by jealousy. - verb transitive To
alter theshape of bystress . - verb intransitive To become
misshapen orchanged inshape . - adjective obsolete
Deformed ,misshapen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb assume a different shape or form
- verb alter the shape of (something) by stress
- verb make formless
- verb twist and press out of shape
- verb become misshapen
- verb cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The Wyden-Bennett Bill has me very concerned about what deform is coming.
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Financial deform is next, insiders defending insiders. joe from Lowell says:
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Having read the bill, it is clear now that what started as health reform has emerged from the political process as health "deform," building on ... '
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This situation and "deform" is getting more and more laughable as it "progresses."
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It appears the globalists and socialists within the two mainstream parties are pulling no punches in getting their agenda sold and pressuring those that also realize that the entire nature and manner in which this "deform" is being approached is from an industry standpoint, and not a Bill of Rights or citizen focus at all.
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And are continuing on legislation with respect to this health care deform which is and has been clearly disputed as outside their also legal authority, and Constitutional duties and functions other than to regulate those industries more significantly in order to reduce those costs, since it has been the costs, not the availability, that has been the major problem for most of those that still remain uninsured.
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Words such as deform, disfigure, disjoint, and dismember all apply to this surgery.
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The town is clean and neat; most of the ruinous, striped houses, with projecting stories, such as deform the streets of Lisieux, being cleared away; leaving wide spaces and pure air, at least in the centre-town, where the best habitations are situated.
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834
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And as with the health "deform" bill, more Mussolini (fascist) than Marx.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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And as with the health "deform" bill, more Mussolini (fascist) than Marx.
Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010
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