[ US /dɪˈfɔɹmd/ ]
[ UK /dɪfˈɔːmd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
    a limp caused by a malformed foot
    his poor distorted limbs
    an ill-shapen vase
    deformed thalidomide babies
    misshapen old fingers
    his poor distorted limbs
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How To Use deformed In A Sentence

  • Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within. David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza
  • 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 rocks are deformed into kilometre-scale monoclinal folds, the axes of which plunge moderately to steeply north northwest.
  • The Los Zorros property covers the entire breadth of a regional anticlinorium in an area that is the locus of younger intrusive activity which intruded up through the fold-deformed lower Cretaceous section of volcaniclastic, siliclastic, and limestone formations and intrusive diorite sills. StreetInsider.com News Articles
  • In this spirit, topologists regard any two objects that can be deformed into each other without tearing to be one and the same thing - have a look at Plus article In space, do all roads lead home?
  • In addition to the principal units, deformed remnants of mafic dykes are abundant.
  • The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons.
  • In a more advance stage, an atretic follicle is easily distinguished without examination of its internal structure by its deformed or shrunken appearance.
  • Of particular beauty here, of course, is the use of utterly inappropriate terms to maintain the rhyme, which saw ‘gloat’ used as a noun directly above this unlearned and unlovely deformed child of a verse.
  • When the United States refused to allow thalidomide to be sold in this country, even though it was being sold in Europe, we saved countless children from being born limbless and otherwise deformed. Ed Koch: Canada Appears More Protective of Its Children Than Is The U.S.
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