Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-FIG'URE
DIS-FIG-U-RA'TIONDIS-FIG'UR-ED
DIS-FIG'URE, v.t. [dis and figure.]
- To change to a worse form; to mar external figure; to impair shape or form and render it less perfect and beautiful; as, the loss of a limb disfigures the body.
- To mar; to impair; to injure beauty, symmetry or excellence.
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