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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Deform  \De*form"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Deformed};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Deforming}.]  [L.  deformare  de-  +  formare  to  form  shape, 
  fr  forma:  cf  F.  d['e]former.  See  {Form}.] 
  1.  To  spoil  the  form  of  to  mar  in  form  to  misshape;  to 
  disfigure. 
 
  Deformed,  unfinished,  sent  before  my  time  Into  this 
  breathing  world.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  render  displeasing;  to  deprive  of  comeliness,  grace,  or 
  perfection;  to  dishonor. 
 
  Above  those  passions  that  this  world  deform. 
  --Thomson. 




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