Definitions

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  • past participle rare Changed in features; deformed.

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  • noun Changed in features; deformed.

Etymologies

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de- + feature + -ed

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Examples

  • Derivative products range from defeatured, cost-reduced versions of platform products to enhanced and even hybrid versions.

    Managing New Product and Process Development Kim B. Clark 1993

  • They stooped below the eaves, flushed and laughing; within a minute they came forth again with changed faces and silent tongues; and as the press severed to make way for them, Taveeta was able to perceive, in the deep shadow of the house, the sick man raising from his mat a head already defeatured by disease.

    The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907

  • Darrell halted; then, as if spellbound, looked fixedly at the broad - shouldered burly frame before him, cased in its coarse pea-jacket, and in that rude form, and that defeatured, bloated face, detected, though with strong effort, the wrecks of the masculine beauty which had ensnared his deceitful daughter.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • They unhelmed another corpse; and the monks and the knight, after one glance, turned away sickened and awe-stricken at the sight: for the face was all defeatured and mangled with wounds; and nought could they recognise save the ravaged majesty of what had been man.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Darrell halted; then, as if spellbound, looked fixedly at the broad-shouldered burly frame before him, cased in its coarse pea-jacket, and in that rude form, and that defeatured, bloated face, detected, though with strong effort, the wrecks of the masculine beauty which had ensnared his deceitful daughter.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • They unhelmed another corpse; and the monks and the knight, after one glance, turned away sickened and awe-stricken at the sight: for the face was all defeatured and mangled with wounds; and nought could they recognise save the ravaged majesty of what had been man.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • The free, ad-free service will still be available, but will get defeatured slightly and will have a cap on the maximum number of viewers it will support.

    CNET News.com 2010

  • The free, ad-free service will still be available, but will get defeatured slightly and will have a cap on the maximum number of viewers it will support.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Apple usually builds fancy machines and prices them accordingly, but in this case it defeatured the iPad somewhat to hit a price point.

    PCWorld 2010

  • The free, ad-free service will still be available, but will get defeatured slightly and will have a cap on the maximum number of viewers it will support.

    ZDNet Asia Latest Tech News Rafe Needleman 2010

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