Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disfigure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To mar the features of; deprive of a feature or of features; disfigure; deface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To deprive of features; to mar the features of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To deprive of
features ; tomar the features of.
Etymologies
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dis- + feature. Compare defeature.
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Examples
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Firstly, if there be aught thereof [484] in any of them, the nature of the stories required it, the which, an they be considered with the rational eye of a person of understanding, it will be abundantly manifest that I could not have otherwise recounted, an I would not altogether disfeature them.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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