disfigurement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
    disfiguration; deformity.
    • there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back
    • suffering from facial disfiguration
  2. noun the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
    disfiguration; defacement.
    • the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
    • he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape

WordNet

Dis*fig"ure*ment noun
Definitions
  1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.
  2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
    Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

Webster 1913