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Deform
deform
(deforms, deforming, deformed) If something deforms a person’s body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms. Bad rheumatoid arthritis deforms limbs... ...the ability of a metal to deform to a new shape without cracking. VERB: V n, V • deformed He was born with a deformed right leg. ADJ • deformation (deformations) Changing stresses bring about more cracking and rock deformation. N-VAR
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verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French desfurmer, from Latin ~are, from de- + formare to form, from forma form Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to spoil the form of 2. a. to spoil the looks of ; disfigure a face ~ed by bitterness b. to mar the character of a marriage ~ed by jealousy 3. to alter the shape of by stress intransitive verb to become misshapen or changed in shape • ~able adjective Synonyms: ~, distort, contort, warp means to mar or spoil by or as if by twisting. ~ may imply a change of shape through stress, injury, or some accident of growth his face was ~ed by hatred. distort and contort both imply a wrenching from the natural, normal, or justly proportioned, but contort suggests a more involved twisting and a more grotesque and painful result the odd camera angle distorts the figure in the photograph disease had painfully contorted her body. warp indicates physically an uneven shrinking that bends or twists out of a flat plane warped floorboards. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. 1 tr. make ugly, deface. 2 tr. put out of shape, misshape. 3 intr. undergo deformation; be deformed. Derivatives deformable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF deformer etc. f. med.L difformare ult. f. L deformare (as DE-, formare f. forma shape) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. обезображивать, уродовать; искажать; портить his body was deformed by illness —- его тело было обезображено болезнью 2. тех. деформировать, коробить; деформироваться, коробиться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v to change the usual shape of something so that its usefulness or appearance is spoiled (The heat had deformed the plastic.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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