deform

From Middle English deformen, borrowed from Old French deformer, from Latin deformare, infinitive of deformo, from de- + formo (“to form”), from the noun forma (“form”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɔːm/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)m

deform (third-person singular simple present deforms, present participle deforming, simple past and past participle deformed)

1. (transitive) To change the form of, negatively.
2. (transitive) To change the looks of, negatively; to disfigure.

   a face deformed by bitterness

3. (transitive) To mar the character of.

   a marriage deformed by jealousy

4. (transitive) To alter the shape of by stress.
5. (intransitive) To become misshapen or changed in shape.

• distort, contort

• buckle
• warp

• deformable
• deformation

deform (comparative more deform, superlative most deform)

1. (obsolete) Deformed, misshapen.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     who so kild that monster most deforme, / And him in hardy battaile ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame […]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

• formed