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How to pronounce disfiguration in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deformity, disfigurement
Type of appearance, visual aspect
Derivation disfigure


suffering from facial disfiguration.
Type Words
Synonyms defacement, disfigurement, mutilation
Type of damage, harm, hurt, scathe

Examples of disfiguration

disfiguration
It is a force whose intensity is manifest not by way of condensation but via disfiguration.
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Long-term consequences include permanent bends or disfiguration of the long bones, and a curved back.
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If you can't walk on the limb, if it's severe enough to cause disfiguration, then obviously you should see a doctor.
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Its effect can be physical disfiguration, mainly lumps on the skin which can prove fatal if they become cancerous.
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As soon as the project was announced in 1967, local architects attacked it as a disfiguration of the whole area.
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The bear is a dark brown, knitted oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped limbs, invariably ending up broken in half or in various other states of destruction and disfiguration.
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More examples
  • Disfigurement: an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration"
  • Defacement: 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"
  • (disfigured) having the appearance spoiled; "a disfigured face"; "strip mining left a disfigured landscape"
  • Disfigurement is the state of having one's appearance deeply and persistently harmed medically, as from a disease, birth defect, or wound.