disfiguration Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
    deformity; disfigurement.
    • there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back
    • suffering from facial disfiguration
  2. noun the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
    defacement; disfigurement.
    • the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
    • he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape

WordNet

Dis*fig`u*ra"tion noun
Etymology
See Disfigure, and cf. Defiguration.
Definitions
  1. The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

Webster 1913