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disfigure

 verb
     
dis‧fig‧ure [transitive]
to spoil the appearance that something naturally has:
His face had been disfigured in an accident.
—disfigured adjective
—disfigurement noun [uncountable and countable]
—disfiguring adjective:
a disfiguring disease
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