Disfigure

DEFINITION

To deform, damage, or spoil the appearance or shape of an object.Quote: "Art is significant deformity." Roger Fry (1866-1934), British art critic. Quoted by Virginia Woolf in Roger Fry, 1940, ch. 8. See distort. Also see aesthetics, aesthetician, beauty, distort, fragment, grotesque, iconomachy, ugly, and vandalize.