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; to mar the features of.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

dis- +‎ feature. Compare defeature.

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Examples

  • 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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