- disfigured or misshapen
- morally perverted; warped
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de•formed /dɪˈfɔrmd/USA pronunciation
adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- misshapen;
disfigured:deformed as the result of an injury.
de•formed
(di fôrmd′),USA pronunciation adj.
de•form•ed•ly
(di fôr′mid lē),USA pronunciation adv.
de•form′ed•ness, n.
- having the form changed, esp. with loss of beauty; misshapen;
disfigured:After the accident his arm was permanently deformed. - hateful;
offensive:a deformed personality.
- 1350–1400; Middle English; see deform1, -ed2
- 1. . malformed, crippled.
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deformed /dɪˈfɔːmd/ adj
de•form1 /dɪˈfɔrm/USA pronunciation
v. [ ~ + obj]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- to mar the natural form of; disfigure:a body badly deformed by a birth defect.
- to mar the beauty of;
spoil:How could they deform such a beautiful landscape?
de•form1
(di fôrm′),USA pronunciation v.t.
v.i.
de•form′a•ble, adj.
de•form′a•bil′i•ty, n.
de•form′a•tive, adj.
de•form′er, n.
de•form2 (di fôrm′),USA pronunciation adj. [Archaic.]
- to mar the natural form or shape of;
put out of shape;
disfigure:In cases where the drug was taken during pregnancy, its effects deformed the infants. - to make ugly, ungraceful, or displeasing;
mar the beauty of;
spoil:The trees had been completely deformed by the force of the wind. - to change the form of;
transform. - Geology, Mechanicsto subject to deformation:The metal was deformed under stress.
v.i.
- Civil Engineeringto undergo deformation.
- Latin dēfōrmāre, equivalent. to dē- de- + fōrmāre to form
- Middle English deformen 1350–1400
de•form′a•bil′i•ty, n.
de•form′a•tive, adj.
de•form′er, n.
- 1. misshape. See mar. 2. ruin.
de•form2 (di fôrm′),USA pronunciation adj. [Archaic.]
- deformed;
ugly.
- Latin dēformis, equivalent. to dē- de- + -formis -form
- Middle English defo(u)rme 1350–1400
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deform /dɪˈfɔːm/ vb
- to make or become misshapen or distorted
- (transitive) to mar the beauty of; disfigure
- to subject or be subjected to a stress that causes a change of dimensions
'deformed' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
club foot
- crooked
- deformity
- freak
- misshapen
- resilience
- shape
- strain
- unshapen
- cauliflower ear
- clubhand
- creep
- deform
- deformed bar
- diastrophism
- distort
- distorted
- elastic
- grotesque
- harelip
- homotopy
- inform
- lusus naturae
- malformed
- mar
- miscreate
- mooncalf
- murmur
- nondeformed
- oaf
- orogen
- pressure ice
- proof stress
- undeformed
- scaphocephaly
- stony pit
- supple