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deformity

/dih-fawr-mi-tee/US // dɪˈfɔr mɪ ti //UK // (dɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ) //

畸形,畸形率,畸形现象,畸形情况

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural de·form·i·ties.

    • : the quality or state of being deformed, disfigured, or misshapen.
    • : Pathology. an abnormally formed part of the body.
    • : a deformed person or thing.
    • : hatefulness; ugliness.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundisfigurement, distortion

Examples

  • Smithsonian anthropologists, who helped direct the study, found evidence of childhood diseases and congenital deformities.

  • While the resulting pig embryos had severe muscle deformities as they developed, their hearts beat as normal.

  • As in the famed Victor Hugo novel upon which the Disney film is loosely based, the plot centers around a man whose physical deformity renders him a social pariah.

  • The bones unearthed in the parking lot revealed that Richard did indeed have a deformity.

  • Anyway, physical deformity was not the most serious charge the Tudors brought against Richard.

  • Maude was born with facial deformity and hence not considered the marrying type.

  • William Hay died in England; remarkable for his deformity, on which he wrote an essay.

  • Also, that which especially exasperates the man of Taste in the sight of Vice is its deformity and disproportion.

  • The connection, then, between the cranial deformity and some underlying nervous disturbance might be assumed.

  • As a public force he was no longer a human being at all—he was a deformity, a spectre conjured up to bring fright to the beholder.

  • Almost any deformity or abnormality these days is called mutantism.

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