Read full poem →A poor old slave, infirm and lame;
Great scars deformed his face;
On his forehead he bore the brand of shame,
Dictionary Entry
To change the form of, usually negatively; to give (something) an unusual or abnormal shape.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. deformedbars deformed
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Poetry examples for “deformed”
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Read full poem →they suggest “cacodeman” (or devil)— a word the poet had applied
twenty years before to Richard III, who is also deformed. Prospero
finally, in Act IV, calls him “a devil.” We may wonder whether
Read full poem →Appears with belly gaunt, and famished face; }
Never was so deformed a beast of grace. }
His ragged tail betwixt his legs he wears,
Read full poem →Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!
Read full poem →For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night:
Read full poem →Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!