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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen;
- Example: "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"
- Example: "suffering from facial disfiguration"
[syn: disfigurement, disfiguration, deformity]

2. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something;
- Example: "the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion"
- Example: "he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape"
[syn: defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disfiguration \Dis*fig`u*ra"tion\, n. [See Disfigure, and cf.
   Defiguration.]
   The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured;
   defacement; deformity; disfigurement. --Gauden.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disfiguration
    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]