Deform

(verb.) alter the shape of (something) by stress; 'His body was deformed by leprosy'.

(verb.) become misshapen; 'The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake'.

(verb.) make formless; 'the heat deformed the plastic sculpture'.

手打:梅尔瓦

• As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Their shape was very singular and deformed, which a little discomposed me, so that I lay down behind a thicket to observe them better. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We now number, with women and children, two hundred souls, and you will not find a deformed or lame person among the lot. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It was some relief when an aunt of the crétin, a kind old woman, came one day, and took away my strange, deformed companion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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