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Definition: DEFEATURE |
DEFEATURENoun1. Disfigurement; deformity. 2. Overthrow; defeat. |
Date "DEFEATURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Etymology: Defeature \De*fea"ture\, noun. [Old French expression desfaiture killing, disguising, prop., an undoing. See Defeat, and compare to Disfeature.]. (references) |
Crosswords: DEFEATURE |
| Etymologies containing "DEFEATURE": Disfeature. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "DEFEATURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shëmtoj (deform, disfigure, uglify). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обезобразявам (deface, deform, disfeature, disfigure, mangle, uglify). (various references) | |
Hungarian | eltorzítás (contortion, defacement, disfigurement, distortion). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efeatureday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | disfarçar (camouflage, cloak, color, colour, disguise, dissemble, fudge, gild, mantle, mask, varnish), desfigurar (deface, deform, disfeature, disfigure, distort, mar, rub). (various references) | |
Romanian | desfigura (deface, disfeature, disfigure, distort). (various references) | |
Russian | делать неузнаваемым. (various references) | |
Spanish | cambiar los rasgos. (various references) | |
Swedish | göra oigenkännlig, förvrida (contort, distort, screw, torture, twist, warp, wring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спотворювати (deface, deform, disfeature, disfigure, distort, uglify), робити невпізнанним, нівечити (canker, deface, deform, disfigure, lame, maim, vandalize). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEFEATURE": defeatures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "DEFEATURE" (pronounced 'De*fea"ture'): Acture, Admixture, Affixture, Anfracture, Aquapuncture, Arboriculture, Attainture, Aventure, Belecture, Cincture, Commixture, Compacture, Composture, Concreture, Confecture, Conjuncture, Connature, Constructure, Contexture, Contracture, Creature, Decocture, Dejecture, feature, fixture, Fructure, Galvanopuncture, imposture, intermixture, juncture, Loture, Metallifacture, misadventure, Misaventure, misfeature, Misnurture, mixture, moisture, Multure, Overmoisture, Overpicture, Painture, Paraventure, Parture, Photosculpture, Pisciculture, Pretexture, Pretorture, Projecture, Prompture. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: defeater, featured, federate, redefeat. | |
-2 letters: draftee, feature, refuted. | |
-3 letters: afreet, dafter, deafer, defeat, defter, derate, feared, feater, feeder, rafted, redate, reefed, refeed, refute, teared, turfed. | |
-4 letters: after, arete, dater, defat, defer, derat, deter, draft, eared, eater, etude, fader, fared, fated, feted, feuar, feued, fraud, freed, rated, refed, tared, trade, tread, treed, trued, urate. | |
-5 letters: daft. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: defeatures. | |
+5 letters: unrefrigerated. | |
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