deformed

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
deformed
    adj 1: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed
           thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-
           shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot";
           "misshapen old fingers" [syn: {deformed}, {distorted},
           {ill-shapen}, {malformed}, {misshapen}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deform \De*form"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deformed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Deforming}.] [L. deformare; de- + formare to form, shape,
   fr. forma: cf. F. d['e]former. See {Form}.]
   1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to
      disfigure.
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            Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
            Into this breathing world.            --Shak.
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   2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or
      perfection; to dishonor.
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            Above those passions that this world deform.
                                                  --Thomson.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Deformed \De*formed"\, a.
   Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity;
   misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed
   head. -- {De*form"ed*ly}, adv. -- {De*form"ed*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "deformed":
      abnormal, awry, bandy, bandy-legged, baroque, bent, bizarre,
      blemished, bloated, bowlegged, cacogenic, checked, cicatrized,
      club-footed, contorted, cracked, crazed, crippled, crooked,
      defaced, defective, disfigured, distorted, dwarfed, faulty,
      flatfooted, flawed, freak, freakish, gargoylish, gnarled,
      grotesque, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, keloidal,
      kinked, knock-kneed, lame, malformed, marred, misbegotten,
      misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape,
      perverted, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, pug-nosed, rachitic,
      rickety, rococo, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, shapeless,
      simous, snub-nosed, split, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, teratic,
      teratogenic, teratoid, truncated, twisted, unshapely, warped

    

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