Usually means: Alter shape under force, stress.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. deform: Merriam-Webster
  2. deform: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deform: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deform: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deform: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deform, deform: Wordnik
  7. deform: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deform: Wiktionary
  9. deform: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deform: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deform: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deform, deform: Dictionary.com
  13. deform: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Deform: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deform: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deform: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. deform: FreeDictionary.org
  18. deform: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. deform: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. deform: Rhymezone
  21. deform: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. deform: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deform: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deform: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deform: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. deform: Medical dictionary

(Note: See deformable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete except poetic) Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
verb:  (engineering, physics) To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress.
verb:  (also figuratively) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
verb:  To mar the character or quality of (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.

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