| 单词 | disfigure |
| 释义 | disfigure (once / 1396 pages) v To disfigure something is to ruin its appearance, which is what would happen if you drew a big bushy mustache and a pair of antennae on the Mona Lisa. Unfortunately, disfigured people are almost always portrayed in the media as villains, or victims. The word does suggest a negative view of someone (after all, it doesn't just mean changing way something looks but specifically spoiling it). Organizations for disfigured people, however, like Changing Faces in England, have claimed the word as their own and use it proudly. WORD FAMILYdisfigure: disfiguration, disfigured, disfigurement, disfigures, disfiguring+/disfiguration: disfigurations/disfigurement: disfigurements/figuration: figurations/figurative: figuratively, nonfigurative/figure: disfigure, figuration, figurative, figured, figureed, figurer, figures, figuring, prefigure, subfigure/figurer: figurers/figuring: figurings/prefiguration: prefigurations/prefigure: prefiguration, prefigurative, prefigured, prefigures, prefiguring USAGE EXAMPLESThey even disfigured one girl’s thumbprints so she couldn’t be checked against the identity of the victim she was supposed to impersonate. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) It was only 12 years ago that Ukraine’s eventual president became disfigured after he mysteriously ingested a lethal poison while campaigning against a pro-Moscow candidate. Seattle Times(Dec 17, 2016) In 2014, she pleaded guilty to attacking a woman who was left with a disfigured nose. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) v mar or spoil the appearance of The vandals disfigured the statue Syn|Hypo|Hyper blemish, deface mangle, maul injure badly by beating mark, pit, pock, scarmark with a scar pockmarkmark with or as if with pockmarks cicatrise, cicatrizeform a scar, after an injury deflower, impair, mar, spoil, vitiate make imperfect |
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