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Definition: Deformed |
DeformedAdjective1. So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deformed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: DeformedSynonyms: distorted (adj), ill-shapen (adj), malformed (adj), misshapen (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distortion | Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deformed |
| English words defined with "deformed": Auf ♦ cauliflower ear, clubfooted ♦ Defeatured, deform, deformable, distort ♦ elastic energy, elastic potential energy, Evil-favored ♦ freak ♦ gnomish ♦ hammertoe, homunculus ♦ lusus naturae ♦ manikin, mannikin, Miscreated, monster, monstrosity ♦ Plastic surgery ♦ Stomatoplastic, strain ♦ To make away ♦ Unfeatured. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deformed": aero-isoclinic wing, axial compression ♦ bird's-eye slate, boudinage, Brunello ♦ CHICK GRADER, CREEL CLERK ♦ flow folding, fracture cleavage, Funnel Chest ♦ harpolith, Heart Bypass, Right ♦ Jacquard board, Jacquard paper ♦ Khorassan ♦ lithodeme ♦ malleable mineral, Mayeux ♦ ORTHOPEDIC-BOOT-AND-SHOE DESIGNER AND MAKER ♦ poultry culler, protoclastic ♦ Rumpelstilzchen ♦ strain rate, sunken-in ♦ Unknown. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "deformed": Defeatured. (references) |
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Screenplays | A deformed kid. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Maybe it was a pervert or a deformed kid or something (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen) Besides, I'm sure things'll pick up in the next scene -- perhaps some terrifyingly deformed creature'll show up and kill him. After all, anything's possible in The Twi-Lite Zone (The Last Episode; writing credit: David Giammarco; Jeff Cowan) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Deformed jaws of salmon caused by the spawning process altering their bodies. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Grind" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "About 50 dental moulds of deformed teeth stacked in rows. other photos from series available." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | His soft, wavering, disjointed, diseased, deformed ideas, attached themselves to Enjolras as to a backbone |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The largeness of its features made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The defective gene tells the body to make the abnormal hemoglobin that results in deformed red blood cells. (references) | |
Children | Liberia | Deformed babies often are abandoned. (references) |
Pakistan | Parents reportedly have given children as offerings to Baba Shah Dola, a shrine in Punjab where the children reportedly are deformed intentionally by clamping a metal form on the head that induces microcephalitis. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Then one day, the clone comes to term and bursts out of its host mother, a deformed, multi-headed freak screeching the inhuman howls of the undead and bloodying your ankle with a gnarled claw in protest for your feeble attempts to play God. |
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| "Deformed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 43.85% of the time. "Deformed" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 43.85% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.69% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.31% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.15% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "deformed": become deformed ♦ deformed person ♦ get deformed. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "deformed": deformed-looking. | |
Ending with "deformed": horribly-deformed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "deformed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مشوه بغيض, مشوه (defaced, disfigured, distorted, malformed, marred, misshapen, shapeless). (various references) | |
Chinese | 扭屈 (Deform, Deforming). (various references) | |
Czech | zrùdný (freakish), znetvořený (disfigured, malformed, misshapen, unshapely), zdeformovaný, pokroucený, pokřivený (crooked, wry). (various references) | |
Danish | egenskaberne af de ved koldvalsning eller traekning deformerede produkter aendrer sig med andelen af cementit,med dennes form og fordeling (its shape and its dispersion, the properties of the product deformed by cold rolling or by drawing vary witU tne amount of cementite). (various references) | |
Dutch | misvormd (depraved), mismaakt. (various references) | |
Esperanto | misformita. (various references) | |
Finnish | muotopuoli (irregular, shapeless), muodoton (misshapen, shapeless), epämuotoinen (misshapen). (various references) | |
French | déformé. (various references) | |
German | verformte, entstellte (defaced, disfigured, garbled), enstellte. (various references) | |
Greek | παραμορφωμένοσ (misshapen), παραμορφωμένος (disfigured, twisted), άμορφοσ (amorphous, formless, shapeless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעוות (distorted, drawn, malformed, perverse). (various references) | |
Hungarian | torzult (distorted). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tercela (blamable, despicable, disabled, disgraceful, reprehensible, shamefully bad), gerumpung (mutilated), cengkong (misshapen). (various references) | |
Italian | deforme (crooked, misshapen, unshapely), malfatto (badly done, badly made, misdemeanor, misdemeanour). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 片端 (crippled, one edge, one end, one side). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かたわ (cripple, crippled, deformity, disability, disfigurement, distortion). (various references) | |
Korean | 모양없이 하는. (various references) | |
Manx | mee-chummit (ill-designed, malformed, misshapen), lheaymyssit, croobagh (cripple, crippled animal, lame), cam (bent, crooked, deceitful, intricate, knotty; cam, perverse, rakish angle, wry), aachummit (reconstituted, reformed). (various references) | |
Norwegian | vanskapt, misdannet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eformedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | deformado (drawn, gnarled, gnarly, malformed, misshapen, strained, warped). (various references) | |
Romanian | diform (disproportionate, enormous, hulking, miscreated, misshapen, shapeless, ungainly), deformat (corrupt, distorted, wry), urâţit, sluţit (crippled, ugly), schilod (cripple, crippled, disabled, gamy, invalid, lame), scãlâmb (distorted), mãtãhãlos (awkward, bulky, clumsy, gawky, heavy, hulking), beteag (crippled, delicate, rickety, sick). (various references) | |
Russian | деформировать деформированный. (various references) | |
Scottish | loirc (a deformed foot, wallow), cropan (deformed person). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deformisan, unakažen (disfigured). (various references) | |
Spanish | deformado (disfigures, distorted, garbles). (various references) | |
Swedish | deformerad (freak), vanställd, vanskapt (misshapen), missbildad (malformed, misshapen), förvuxen (overgrown), abnorm (aberrant, abnormal, freak, freakish). (various references) | |
Turkish | deforme olmuş (crooked), şekli bozulmuş, çarpık çurpuk (crooked). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юumroя (abnormal, ugly). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | спотворений (anamorphous, awry, cam, distorted, misshapen, putrid, strained, truncated), зіпсований (addle, adulterated, bad, base, corrupt, debauched, decadent, degenerate, miscreant, naughty, out of order, spoilt, unsound, wrong), понівечений. (various references) | |
Welsh | anffurfiol (informal), afluniaidd (mis-shapen, unshapely). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | informem, informibus, prava, pravae, pravam, pravis, pravo, pravorum, pravum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 22, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Panta osa an ech mwmon en autw ou prosaxousin kuriw dioti ou dekton estai umin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si maculam habuerit non offeretis neque erit acceptabile |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If it haue a wemme, ye shulen not offre, ne shal be acceptable. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Let them offer nothynge that is deformed for they shall gett no fauoure there with. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But whatever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord. |
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| Language | Leviticus Chapter 22, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Apan ngatanan kadto nga may ikasaway, dili igahalad ninyo, kay kini dili pagadawaton alang kaninyo: |
| Chinese | 凡 有 殘 疾 的 、 你 們 不 可 獻 上 、 因 為 這 不 蒙 悅 納 。 |
| Croatian | Nikakvo s manom na njemu nemojte prinositi jer vam to neæe biti primljeno. |
| Danish | I må ikke ofre noget Dyr, der har en Legemsfejl, thi derved vinder I ikke eders Guds Velbehag. |
| Dutch | Gij zult niet offeren iets, waarin een gebrek is; want het zou niet aangenaam zijn voor u. |
| Finnish | Mutta yhtään eläintä, jossa on vamma, älkää tuoko, sillä siitä hänen mielisuosionsa ei tule teidän osaksenne. |
| French | Vous n`en offrirez aucune qui ait un défaut, car elle ne serait pas agréée. |
| German | Alles, was ein Fehl hat, sollt ihr nicht opfern; denn es wird von euch nicht angenehm sein. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jangan mempersembahkan binatang yang ada cacatnya, sebab TUHAN tidak mau menerimanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Segala sesuatu yang berkecelaan adanya jangan kamu persembahkan, karena ia itu tiada mengadakan keridlaan atasmu. |
| Italian | Non offrirete nulla con qualche difetto, perché non sarebbe gradito. |
| Maori | Kaua rawa ia e whakaherea tetahi mea he koha tona: no te mea e kore e manakohia hei mea ma koutou. |
| Norwegian | Noget som det er lyte på, må I ikke ofre; for da har Herren ikke velbehag i eder. |
| Portuguese | Nenhuma coisa, porém, que tiver defeito oferecereis, porque não será aceita a vosso favor. |
| Rumanian | Sq nu aduceyi niciuna care sq aibq vreun cusur, cqci n`ar fi primitq. |
| Spanish | No ofreceréis ningún animal con defecto, porque no os será aceptado. |
| Swedish | I skolen icke därtill taga ett djur som har något lyte, ty genom ett sådant bliven I icke välbehagliga. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "deformed": undeformed. (additional references) | |
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"Deformed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daforno, defore, Deforges, deformd, peformed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deformed" (pronounced dufô"rmd) |
| 6 | -u f ô" r m d | reformed. |
| 5 | -f ô" r m d | conformed, formed, informed, malformed, misinformed, performed, transformed, unformed, uninformed. |
| 4 | -ô" r m d | stormed, swarmed, warmed. |
| 3 | -r m d | alarmed, armed, charmed, disarmed, farmed, harmed, outperformed, unarmed, unharmed, uniformed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-f-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: freedom. | |
-2 letters: deform, demode, demoed, emerod, eroded, fodder, forded, formed, formee. | |
-3 letters: defer, domed, dreed, erode, forme, freed, fremd, merde, odder, reded, refed. | |
-4 letters: deed, deem, deer, deme, demo, dere, derm, doer, dome, dore, dorm, dree, eddo, feed, feme, feod, fere, ford, fore, form, free, froe, from, meed, mere, mode, more, omer, redd, rede. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-f-m-o-r" | |
+2 letters: foredoomed, remodified, undeformed. | |
+3 letters: premodified. | |
+4 letters: deformalized, formaldehyde. | |
+5 letters: dumbfoundered, formaldehydes. | |
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