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[ UK /dɪfˈɔːm/ ]
[ US /ˌdiˈfɔɹm/ ]
VERB
  1. make formless
    the heat deformed the plastic sculpture
  2. become misshapen
    The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake
  3. alter the shape of (something) by stress
    His body was deformed by leprosy
  4. cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
    bend the rod
    twist the dough into a braid
    the strong man could turn an iron bar
  5. assume a different shape or form
  6. twist and press out of shape

How To Use deform In A Sentence

  • A energy absorbing structure is disclosed for the purpose of protecting human occupants of a vehicle from the damaging effects of sudden accelerative or decelerative forces by means of plastic deformation of the structure.
  • The length should be that of the bandaging; the breadth, three or four fingers; thickness, three or fourfold; number so as to encircle the limb, neither more nor less; those applied for the purpose of rectifying a deformity, should be of such a length as to encircle it; the breadth and thickness being determined by the vacuity, which is not to be filled up at once. On The Surgery
  • * Quaeritamen potest, si tota natura peccati sordibus infecta est, cur tantum una in parte corporis deformitas appareat. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
  • These puncture wounds scar and deform the fruit.
  • The rocks are asymmetrically folded and overthrust to the west, with chaotic units and abundant evidence for coeval soft-sediment deformation.
  • I don't imagine cows much like being stunned with airguns, or chickens living in cages that deform their bodies, being forced to lay eggs until they die. MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
  • The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
  • The Catalinas, in all of their grandeur, are going through that process of deformation right now.
  • The rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.
  • Well," said Jervis, "it might have been a peculiar finger; a finger, for instance, with some characteristic deformity such as an ankylosed joint, which would be easy to identify. The Eye of Osiris
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