disfiguring
Leaving permanent marks
Disfiguring means causing damage that mars appearance, especially to a face or body: a disfiguring scar, disfiguring burns.
The word emphasizes visible, lasting harm rather than internal injury.
Disfiguring can also describe anything that spoils the look of something: disfiguring graffiti on the monument.
Permanent mark formation
- mutilatingDestroying body parts violently
- maimingInflicting disabling wounds
- deformingAltering original shape
- marringCausing damage or disfigurement
defacing · mangling · wounding · lacerating · gashing · severing · crippling · burning
Causing damage or disfigurement
- spoilingCausing ruin or decay
- ruiningCausing complete destruction
- defacingSpoiling an appearance
- vandalizingWillfully destroying property
blighting · tainting · corrupting · degrading · uglifying · blemishing · damaging · impairing
Becoming bent or twisted
- twistingRotating with distortion
- contortingTwisting into unnatural shapes
- misshapingAltering form wrongly
- skewingCausing asymmetrical distortion
bending · misaligning · disproportioning · gnarling · deformation · asymmetry · crookedness · distortion
Causing feelings of disgrace
- stigmatizingMarking as socially unacceptable
- humiliatingCausing painful embarrassment
- degradingLowering in worth
- traumatizingCausing psychological harm
scarring · branding · marking · labeling · ostracizing · marginalizing · damaging · wounding
scarring
Permanent mark formation
- mutilatingDestroying body parts violently
- maimingInflicting disabling wounds
- deformingAltering original shape
marring · defacing · mangling · wounding · lacerating · gashing · severing · crippling · burning · branding
marring
Causing damage or disfigurement
vandalizing · blighting · tainting · corrupting · degrading · uglifying · blemishing · damaging · impairing · desecrating
warping
Becoming bent or twisted
- twistingRotating with distortion
- contortingTwisting into unnatural shapes
- misshapingAltering form wrongly
skewing · bending · misaligning · disproportioning · gnarling · deformation · asymmetry · crookedness · distortion
shaming
Causing feelings of disgrace
- stigmatizingMarking as socially unacceptable
- humiliatingCausing painful embarrassment
- degradingLowering in worth
traumatizing · scarring · branding · marking · labeling · ostracizing · marginalizing · damaging · wounding · tarnishing
- vandalismvandalism, defacement, tagging, defacing, graffiti tags
disfiguringbeautifying
Making more attractive
embellishing · adorning · enhancing · prettifying · flattering
disfiguringhealing
Restoration of health
restoring · repairing · mending · reconstructing · regenerating
figure, effigy, disfigured, disfigure, configuration, transfigure, prefigure, disfigurement, configuring