MEANING
A change that seriously mars a body’s or object’s appearance.
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- facial disfigurement
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The portrait concealed his facial disfigurement.
Fire caused severe disfigurement to the carving.
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- disfigurement
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular disfigurement; plural disfigurements. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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