defigure

See also: défiguré and défigure

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ figure.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/

Verb

defigure (third-person singular simple present defigures, present participle defiguring, simple past and past participle defigured)

1. (obsolete) To delineate, to depict.
   • 1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments:

     These two stones as they are here defigured.

2. (nonstandard) to disfigure

References

• “defigure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.