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"text": "a face deformed by bitterness",
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"ref": "1774, Hen[ry] Home, “Sketch XII. Origin and Progress of American Nations.”, in Sketches of the History of Man. […], volume II (Progress of Men in Society), Edinburgh: […] W[illiam] Creech, […]; and for W[illiam] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 89",
"text": "The [Native American] private men fought naked; their faces and bodies being deformed with paint, in order to terrify the enemy.",
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"ref": "1933, Gertrude Stein, “Gertrude Stein in Paris: 1903–1907”, in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 49",
"text": "[Henri] Matisse at that time was at work at his first big decoration, Le Bonheur de Vivre. […] It was in this picture that Matisse first clearly realised his intention of deforming the drawing of the human body in order to harmonise and intensify the colour values of all the simple colours mixed only with white.",
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"word": "деформирам се"
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"name": "m"
},
{
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"pos": "noun"
},
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"name": "m"
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{
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"1": "1"
},
"expansion": "¹",
"name": "sup"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "deformar",
"t": "to deform"
},
"expansion": "Catalan deformar (“to deform”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "deformare",
"t": "to deform; to distort, warp"
},
"expansion": "Italian deformare (“to deform; to distort, warp”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "deformar"
},
"expansion": "Occitan deformar",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "deformar",
"t": "to deform"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese deformar (“to deform”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "deformar"
},
"expansion": "Spanish deformar",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "desformar",
"t": "to deform, disfigure"
},
"expansion": "desformar (“to deform, disfigure”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English deformen (“to deform, disfigure, distort; to make ugly, mar; (figuratively) to disfigure morally; to defame; to dishonour”) [and other forms], equivalent to de- + form, from Old French deformer [and other forms] (modern French déformer (“to contort, distort, twist out of shape; (figuratively) to pervert”)), or directly from its etymon Latin dēfōrmāre (whence Medieval Latin difformāre), the present active infinitive of dēfōrmō (“to fashion, form; to delineate, describe; to design; to deform, disfigure; to mar, spoil”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; from’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, shape; to format”) (from fōrma (noun); see further at etymology 1).\ncognates\n* Catalan deformar (“to deform”)\n* Italian deformare (“to deform; to distort, warp”)\n* Occitan deformar\n* Portuguese deformar (“to deform”)\n* Spanish deformar, desformar (“to deform, disfigure”)",
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"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "deforming",
"tags": [
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"present"
]
},
{
"form": "deformed",
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "deformed",
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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"word": "deformation"
},
{
"word": "deformational"
},
{
"word": "deformity"
},
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"word": "retrodeformation"
}
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"antonyms": [
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"word": "undeform"
}
],
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],
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{
"ref": "1678, Joseph Moxon, “Continued in the Art of Joynery”, in Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works. […], 2nd edition, number II, London: […] J[oseph] Moxon, […], published 1693, →OCLC, § 22 (Of the Piercer), page 90",
"text": "[Y]ou muſt take care to keep the Bitt ſtraight to the Hole you pierce, leſt you deform the Hole, or break the Bitt.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Michael Chabon, chapter 2, in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay […], New York, N.Y.: Random House, part 3, page 178",
"text": "[…] Joe’s thick thatch of curls had been deformed by his headgear into a kind of glossy black hat, […]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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{
"word": "distend"
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{
"word": "warp"
}
],
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[
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[
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],
[
"give",
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],
[
"abnormal",
"abnormal"
],
[
"unusual",
"unusual"
],
[
"shape",
"shape#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
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"word": "contort"
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{
"word": "distort"
}
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},
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"word": "undeform"
}
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"en:Physics"
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"word": "buckle"
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{
"word": "distend"
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{
"word": "warp"
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"engineering",
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"physics",
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[
"applying",
"apply#Verb"
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"force",
"force#Noun"
],
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"stress",
"stress#Noun"
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"(transitive)",
"To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.",
"(engineering, physics) To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "contort"
},
{
"word": "distort"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
{
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"English transitive verbs"
],
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"text": "a face deformed by bitterness",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1774, Hen[ry] Home, “Sketch XII. Origin and Progress of American Nations.”, in Sketches of the History of Man. […], volume II (Progress of Men in Society), Edinburgh: […] W[illiam] Creech, […]; and for W[illiam] Strahan, and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 89",
"text": "The [Native American] private men fought naked; their faces and bodies being deformed with paint, in order to terrify the enemy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1933, Gertrude Stein, “Gertrude Stein in Paris: 1903–1907”, in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 49",
"text": "[Henri] Matisse at that time was at work at his first big decoration, Le Bonheur de Vivre. […] It was in this picture that Matisse first clearly realised his intention of deforming the drawing of the human body in order to harmonise and intensify the colour values of all the simple colours mixed only with white.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance."
],
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"look",
"look#Noun"
],
[
"making",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"imperfect",
"imperfect"
],
[
"unattractive",
"unattractive"
],
[
"appearance",
"appearance"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(also figuratively) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance."
],
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{
"word": "deface"
},
{
"word": "disfigure"
},
{
"word": "distort"
},
{
"word": "mar"
}
],
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"also",
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a marriage deformed by jealousy",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To mar the character or quality of (something)."
],
"links": [
[
"mar",
"mar#Verb"
],
[
"character",
"character#Noun"
],
[
"quality",
"quality#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To mar the character or quality of (something)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To become changed in shape or misshapen."
],
"links": [
[
"become",
"become"
],
[
"changed",
"changed#Adjective"
],
[
"misshapen",
"misshapen"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dɪˈfɔːm/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/dəˈfɔɹm/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)m"
},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "deformiram",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "деформирам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformar"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformere"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "rumentaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "runnella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "turmella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "déformer"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "eldeformál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "elrontja az alakját"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odkształcać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odkształcić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular",
"word": "deformera"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "deformiram",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "деформирам"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "deformere"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "deformoida"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "muovata"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "deformál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "megváltoztatja az alakját"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress",
"word": "deformera"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obezobrazjavam",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "обезобразявам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "tärvellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "turmella"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "elcsúfít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "eltorzít"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "deformować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odkształcać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odkształcić"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "deformar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive",
"word": "desfigurar"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to mar the character or quality of (something)",
"word": "tärvellä"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "deformiram se",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "деформирам се"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "deformere"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "rusentua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "vääntyä"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "eldeformálódik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "deformálódik"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "odkształcać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "odkształcić się"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"tags": [
"pronominal"
],
"word": "deformar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to become changed in shape or misshapen",
"word": "deformera"
}
],
"word": "deform"
}
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