DISFIGURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disfigured mean? 

• DISFIGURED (adjective)
  The adjective DISFIGURED has 1 sense:

1. having the appearance spoiled

  Familiarity information: DISFIGURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISFIGURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the appearance spoiled

Context example:

strip mining left a disfigured landscape

Similar:

ugly (displeasing to the senses)

 Context examples 

Do you remember when, in his inheritance of your nature, and in your pampering of his pride and passion, he did this, and disfigured me for life?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

During the first twelve hours I thought of Mrs. Reed in her last moments; I saw her disfigured and discoloured face, and heard her strangely altered voice.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was always hideous, but he looks more awful than ever now, for he appears to have had an accident and he is much disfigured.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One eye was disfigured and sightless from a wound, but the other looked from my father to myself with the quickest and shrewdest of expressions.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have known a face not materially disfigured by a few, but he abominates them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The whole face of the country was scarred and disfigured, mottled over with the black blotches of burned farm-steadings, and the gray, gaunt gable-ends of what had been chateaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A shock of orange hair, a pale face disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be thrown at him by the passers-by.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Since then, I have been a mere disfigured piece of furniture between you both; having no eyes, no ears, no feelings, no remembrances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Foully murdered, with a score of wounds upon him and a rope round his neck, his poor friend had been cast from the upper window and swung slowly in the night wind, his body rasping against the wall and his disfigured face upon a level with the casement.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had that kind of shallow black eye—I want a better word to express an eye that has no depth in it to be looked into—which, when it is abstracted, seems from some peculiarity of light to be disfigured, for a moment at a time, by a cast.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)