defigure
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
Verb
defigure (third-person singular simple present defigures, present participle defiguring, simple past and past participle defigured)
- (obsolete) To delineate, to depict.
- 1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments:
- These two stones as they are here defigured.
- (nonstandard) to disfigure
References
- “defigure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.