What is another word for deforms?

Pronunciation: [dɪfˈɔːmz] (IPA)

Deforms is a verb that is used to describe the process of altering the shape or structure of something in an undesirable or unwanted way. To express the same meaning as this word, people use different synonyms depending on different contexts and situations. The most commonly used synonyms of deforms are distorts, disfigures, misshapes, warps, mangles, contorts, contorts, disorts, malforms, and misconfigures. Each of these words signifies a different level of deformation or alteration in form and structure. The appropriate use of synonyms for deforms helps to convey the intended meaning and context of the sentence or text to the reader.

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  • Equivalence

    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
      distorts.
  • Independent

    • Verb, 3rd person singular present
      tarnish.

What are the hypernyms for Deforms?

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Usage examples for Deforms

As the children throughout the school come from the same homes, play with the same companions, attend the same churches, and are subject to the same general influences, it is perfectly clear that the whipping is the distinctive feature of character training that deforms the children.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
If unsuited to this need, it irritates and deforms character, as a plaster cast compresses a limb encased in it.
"The Cost of Shelter"
Ellen H. Richards
Thus wears the month along, in checkered moods, Sunshine and shadows, tempests loud, and calms; One hour dies silent oer the sleepy woods, The next wakes loud with unexpected storms; A dreary nakedness the field deforms- Yet many a rural sound, and rural sight, Lives in the village still about the farms, Where toil's rude uproar hums from morn till night Noises, in which the ears of industry delight.
"Poems Chiefly From Manuscript"
John Clare

Famous quotes with Deforms

  • When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
    Leon Blum
  • As when Eolus heaven's fair face deforms, Enwrapp'd in tempest and a night of storms; Astonish'd ocean feels the wild uproar, The refluent surges beat the sounding shore; Or thick as leaves in Autumn's golden reign,
    Phillis Wheatley
  • Logically, humanity itself will also become a domesticate of this order as the world of production processes us as much as it degrades and deforms every other natural system.
    John Zerzan
  • To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.
    Steven Pressfield

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