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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disfeature.

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Examples

  • “O my lady Miriam what aileth thee that I see thy case changed and thy face grown pale and show disfeatured?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There was savage work in Milan in those days, and more than one well-known figure lay lost among the heaps of dead hacked and disfeatured by Croat blades.

    Crucial Instances Edith Wharton 1899

  • You cease to care much for the melancholy greenness of the disfeatured statues which has been your chief winter's intimation of verdure; and before you are quite conscious of the tender streaks and patches in the great quaint grassy arena round which the Propaganda students, in their long skirts, wander slowly, like dusky seraphs revolving the gossip of Paradise, you spy the brave little violets uncapping their azure brows beneath the high-stemmed pines.

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

  • Denuded and disfeatured within and bristling without with bricklayers 'ladders, the place was yet extraordinarily impressive and interesting.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • Mistress Gracie, she climbed the gate of the close, from the top of it stepped upon the new wall, thence let herself down on the disfeatured road, and set out to follow its track, turn for turn, through the ploughed land.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • When he reached the spot at which he usually turned off by a gap in the hedge to NEEDLE his way through the unpathed wood, he yielded to the impulses of memory and habit, and sought the yew-circle, where for some moments he stood by the dumb, disfeatured stone, which seemed to slumber in the moonlight, a monument slowly vanishing from above a vanished grave.

    St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864

  • When he reached the spot at which he usually turned off by a gap in the hedge to NEEDLE his way through the unpathed wood, he yielded to the impulses of memory and habit, and sought the yew-circle, where for some moments he stood by the dumb, disfeatured stone, which seemed to slumber in the moonlight, a monument slowly vanishing from above a vanished grave.

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

  • When the druggist's wife saw this, she said to her, "O my lady Miriam what aileth thee that I see thy case changed and thy face grown pale and show disfeatured?"

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Cornelia figured to him while he walked away as, by contrast and opposition, a massive little bundle of data; his impatience to go to see her sharpened as he thought of this: so certainly should he find out that wherever he might touch her, with a gentle though firm pressure, he would, as the fond visitor of old houses taps and fingers a disfeatured, overpapered wall with the conviction of a wainscot-edge beneath, recognise some small extrusion of history.

    The Finer Grain Henry James 1879

  • a straight avenue through a disfeatured park -- the park of Chambord has twenty-one miles of circumference; a very sandy, scrubby, melancholy plantation, in which the timber must have been cut many times over and is to-day a mere tangle of brushwood.

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

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