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Disfiguring is the -ing form of . As a doing-word, it means the act of spoiling how someone or something looks. We meet it much more as a describing word: a disfiguring scar, burn, or illness is one that changes a person's look, often for a long time. News and medical English like this word; it sounds serious. It describes the cause, not the person after the fact. A disfiguring accident is the event that does the harm; the person may then be . Though actually, it is not only about faces: a disfiguring crack in a statue is the same idea, a look that has been spoiled. Same heavy feeling as the rest of this family: kind speakers do not throw it around as an insult.
會毀容的；破壞外貌的
組成disfigure + -ing. The -ing can name the action, or sit in front of a noun like a describing word (“that spoils the look”).
同家族的字
- disfigurethe verb this -ing form belongs to
- disfigurementthe noun for the damaged look, or the act of spoiling it
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。