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verb

Deform v. t. (past & past part. deformed; pres. part. deforming)

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. "Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world."

To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. "Above those passions that this world deform."

adjective

Deformed adj. Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.

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Etymology of 'Deformed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Deformed" Quotes from Famous Books

... to bear the hard fate of a deformed body may go far in helping to explain this remarkable character. It is common knowledge how frequently weak and deformed children have to suffer from the cruelty and neglect of environment, a factor which cannot but produce a peculiar reaction on the childish mind which has ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... these great qualities: and the reputation which he thus enjoys, and has merited, excites our attention the more, on considering the circumstances under which it was acquired. Schiller had peculiar difficulties to strive with, and his success has likewise been peculiar. Much of his life was deformed by inquietude and disease, and it terminated at middle age; he composed in a language then scarcely settled into form, or admitted to a rank among the cultivated languages of Europe: yet his writings are remarkable for their extent and variety as well as their intrinsic ...

— The Life of Friedrich Schiller - Comprehending an Examination of His Works • Thomas Carlyle

... knowledge, might have recognized points that came from Gothic Spain,—the deep eyes of starlight blue, so near to black, and hair that was a brown with dust of gold. But her feet and hands were all of Andalusia. Jamie had hardly spoken to a woman in his life,—he used to think of himself as deformed. And now this little girl was ...

— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not ...

— Book of Wise Sayings - Selected Largely from Eastern Sources • W. A. Clouston

... grew somewhat staggered with his fears. He now half-repented of the self-imposed adventure; wondered at his own rash humanity, and might perhaps have utterly forborne the trial, but for a single consideration. His pride was concerned, that the deformed Chub should not have occasion to laugh at his weakness. Descending, therefore, from his horse, he fastened him to the hanging branch of a neighboring tree, and with something of desperate defiance in his manner, resolutely advanced to the silent and forbidding ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

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