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Noun: disfigurement  dis'fi-g(y)u(r)-munt
  1. An appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
    "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back";
    - disfiguration, deformity
     
  2. The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
    "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape";
    - defacement, disfiguration, mutilation

Derived forms: disfigurements

Type of: appearance, damage, harm, hurt, scathe [archaic], visual aspect

Encyclopedia: Disfigurement

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