How to Use disfigure in a Sentence

disfigure

verb
Definition of disfigurenext
Synonyms for disfigurenext
  • His face was disfigured by a scar.
  • Other videos show the aftermath, with the victims' faces or hands disfigured.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 17 Sep. 2024
  • By the time Pearson was 8, the tumors had progressed, and his face was noticeably disfigured.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Most of the face is disfigured, and the legs are missing below the knee.
    — Associated Press, Washington Post, 26 May 2017
  • My surgery had left me pretty disfigured — one breast was the size of a cantaloupe but the other was the size of a grapefruit.
    — Teen Vogue, 21 June 2019
  • Craig’s disfigured body was found wrapped in a tarp in a wooded area in Yates County.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • At the start of 1987, children at play found his corpse in a vacant lot, his face disfigured by splashes of acid.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The hydrochloric acid had done little to disfigure the corpse.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2024
  • Chelsea was disfigured in 2013 when a drunk driver slammed into his car, sparking a fire.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2019
  • His face and hands were clearly disfigured from his injuries.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • The three people who died had been traveling in one of the rail cars that was severely disfigured by the crash impact, NTSB said.
    — Alan Levin, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2018
  • Mobster whose face was disfigured after falling in a vat of acid?
    — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Now, the woman in that video has told Channel 2 Action News that the cosmetic surgery left her disfigured.
    — Terah Boyd, ajc, 4 June 2018
  • The patients claim her negligence left them disfigured and, in one case, brain damaged.
    — Christina Caron, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • After countless skin grafts and surgeries it had been saved, but had left her slightly disfigured in that area.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Those curled and disfigured leaves are caused by a fungus that thrives in humidity.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • His body was so disfigured that when it was found three days later, it could only be identified by Till’s signet ring.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 30 July 2019
  • The body was badly disfigured from the fire, and officials are working to identify the man, Leibman said.
    — Asia Fields, The Seattle Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Trump has disfigured the pardon power to reward friends.
    — Mona Charen, National Review, 11 Oct. 2019
  • He had been beaten and disfigured and could be identified only by a ring on his finger.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • Emmett Till, 14, is laid out on a cot in a Chicago funeral home, his face disfigured and bloated.
    — Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
  • So is the white gauze mask that usually covers the lower half of her face, the part most badly disfigured by her suicide attempt.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • When a fight ends with her husband dead and Julien disfigured, the lover undergoes reconstructive surgery to look like the husband and hide the murder.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 July 2023
  • Chelsea has led a difficult life the last few years — he was left severely disfigured after he was hit by a drunk driver in 2013.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Our democracy would be disfigured at best and at worst destroyed.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 17 July 2023
  • Hotels and high-rise condos were disfigured, their balconies sheared away as though a malevolent giant had clawed through the city.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Wales has many – and win it for Labour, the center-left party that grew out of the union movement that organized the miners in the collieries which defined and disfigured these valleys.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2019
  • His beaten and bloodied body was wrapped in a tarp, and investigators said some type of acid had been used in an attempt to disfigure the victim's face and hands.
    — USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
  • By then corpses are often too swollen and disfigured to be recognizable.
    — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
  • His leg was visibly disfigured, and the Cavs bench had an animated reaction to the gnarly image in front of them.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 Dec. 2017

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