verb
definition
Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.
example
The burnings disfigured his face.
Examples of disfiguring in a Sentence
He took an active part in all the subsequent wars with the Cossacks and received more disfiguring wounds than any other commander.
The most destructive is Botrytis cinerea which forms orangebrown or buff specks on the stems, pedicels, leaves and flower-buds, which increase in size and become covered with a delicate grey mould, completely destroying or disfiguring the parts attacked.
A study looking at severe and disfiguring mucocutaneous leishmaniasis has identified a single gene which predisposes to this particular type of disease.
Endoscopic orbital decompression may be used to treat disfiguring proptosis or sight threatening optic nerve compression in patients with thyroid eye disease.
Vegetal tissue turns brown with age and is very disfiguring.
One is very safe to use, while the other can cause severe scarring and disfiguring.
Children also experience low self-esteem and depression because of the disfiguring aspects of the disease.
Other symptoms may be associated with temporarily debilitating or permanently disfiguring consequences.
The lesions associated with bejel are destructive and may leave disfiguring scars.
Even skin cancers that aren't likely to spread can leave disfiguring scars if they're allowed to progress.
He did his best to hide the disfiguring scar covering the left side of his face without breaking file.