disfigurement

disfigurement
    n 1: an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there
         were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back";
         "suffering from facial disfiguration" [syn:
         {disfigurement}, {disfiguration}, {deformity}]
    2: the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something;
       "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish
       invasion"; "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of
       the landscape" [syn: {defacement}, {disfigurement},
       {disfiguration}]
    

Disfigurement \Dis*fig"ure*ment\, n.
   1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured;
      deformity. --Milton.
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   2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
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            Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement
            rather than any embellishment of discourse. --Hume.
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107 Moby Thesaurus words for "disfigurement":
      birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, bowlegs, bulla,
      cacophony, camelback, check, cicatrix, cleft palate, clubfoot,
      clumsiness, comedo, crack, crater, craze, crookback, defacement,
      defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, distortion,
      dysphemism, fault, flatfoot, flaw, freakishness, freckle,
      gracelessness, harelip, hemangioma, hickey, homeliness, humpback,
      hunchback, ill-favoredness, inelegance, keloid, kink, knock-knee,
      kyphosis, lentigo, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, milium,
      misproportion, misshape, mole, monstrosity, mutilation,
      needle scar, nevus, pimple, pit, plainness, pock, pockmark,
      port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rift, scab, scar,
      scratch, sebaceous cyst, shapelessness, splayfoot, split,
      strawberry mark, sty, swayback, talipes, teratology, torticollis,
      track, truncation, twist, uglification, uglifying, ugliness,
      unaestheticness, unattractiveness, unbeautifulness, uncomeliness,
      ungainliness, ungracefulness, unhandsomeness, unloveliness,
      unpleasingness, unprettiness, unshapeliness, unsightliness, valgus,
      verruca, vesicle, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead,
      wryneck