All misshape synonyms
misΒ·shape
M m verb misshape
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
- batter β If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner.
- blemish β A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- buckle β A buckle is a piece of metal or plastic attached to one end of a belt or strap, which is used to fasten it.
- contort β If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
- cripple β A person with a physical disability or a serious permanent injury is sometimes referred to as a cripple.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- disfigure β to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- distort β to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- flaw β Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
- grimace β a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- knot β either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
- maim β to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- mangle β to smooth or press with a mangle.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- skew β to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- warp β OS/2
- wince β to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.
- gnarl β a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
noun misshape
- malconformation β Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
- misshapen β badly shaped; deformed.
- freak β a fleck or streak of color.
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- distortion β an act or instance of distorting.
- bs β BS is an abbreviation for 'British Standard', which is a standard that something sold in Britain must reach in a test to prove that it is satisfactory or safe. Each standard has a number for reference.
- intorsion β a twisting about an axis or fixed point, as of the stem of a plant.
- mutilation β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- misproportion β comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
- deformity β A deformity is a part of someone's body which is not the normal shape because of injury or illness, or because they were born this way.
- miscreation β miscreated.
- attractive β A person who is attractive is pleasant to look at.
- malformation β faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
- repulsive β causing repugnance or aversion: a repulsive mask.