Definitions for deform

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deform de·form

Spelling: [dih-fawrm]

IPA: /dɪˈfɔrm/

Deform is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in deform (defmor).

Definitions for deform

adjective

1. deformed; ugly.

verb (used with object)

1. to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure:
2. to make ugly, ungraceful, or displeasing; mar the beauty of; spoil:
3. to change the form of; transform.
4. Geology, Mechanics. to subject to deformation:

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo deformation.

Origin of deform

1350-1400; Middle English deformen Latin dēfōrmāre, equivalent to dē- de- + fōrmāre to form

Examples for deform

Rain does not deform the face of things everywhere as it does in a city.

I have no wish to know anything which may deform life and mar its beauty.

After two seasons, this rude dwelling does not deform the scene.

I told him, forcefully to deform nature thus could scarce be wholesome.

I told him forcefully to deform nature thus could scarce be wholesome.

There are blemishes, I confess, which deform in some degree the picture.

He is raised and swells, like a pimple, to be an eyesore and deform the place he holds.

And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a wrenching as to deform it forever.

In fact, they seem to block up the view, and to deform what they do not hide.

It is clear, then, that whatever is contrary to these will generally degrade and deform it.