defigure

See also: défiguré and défigure

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ figure.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/

Verb

defigure (third-person singular simple present defigures, present participle defiguring, simple past and past participle defigured)

  1. (obsolete) To delineate, to depict.
    • 1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments:
      These two stones as they are here defigured.
  2. (nonstandard) to disfigure

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