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DEFORMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
Example:
misshapen old fingers
Synonyms:
deformed; distorted; ill-shapen; malformed; misshapen
Classified under:
Similar:
unshapely (not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape)
Derivation:
deformity (an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen)
deformity (an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb deform
Context examples:
A condition in adults in which bones become soft and deformed because they don’t have enough calcium and phosphorus.
(Adult rickets, NCI Dictionary)
As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A condition in children in which bones become soft and deformed because they don't have enough calcium and phosphorus.
(Childhood Rickets, NCI Dictionary)
The most common form is talipes equinovarus, where the deformed foot is turned downward and inward sharply.
(Clubfoot, NCI Thesaurus)
Patients may have deformed thumbs and other physical problems.
(Blackfan–Diamond anemia, NCI Dictionary)
The landlord was hesitating whether to carry this message or no, when the door of the inner room was flung open, and the stranger bounded out like a panther from its den, his hair bristling and his deformed face convulsed with anger.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Researchers have used high-powered microscopy and rheometry — the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force — to view the blood clotting process in real time and at the cellular level.
(How And Why Blood Clots Shrink, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I could not help wondering in my own mind, as I contemplated the boiled leg of mutton before me, previous to carving it, how it came to pass that our joints of meat were of such extraordinary shapes—and whether our butcher contracted for all the deformed sheep that came into the world; but I kept my reflections to myself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
