1. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something - the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion - he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape • Syn: defacement, disfiguration • Derivationally related forms: disfigure, deface (for: defacement) • Hypernyms: damage, harm, hurt, scathe 2. an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen - there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back - suffering from facial disfiguration • Syn: disfiguration, deformity • Derivationally related forms: deformed (for: deformity), disfigure (for: disfiguration), disfigure • Hypernyms: appearance, visual aspect
