deform
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- v make formless
the heat deformed the plastic sculpture - v twist and press out of shape
- v cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- v become misshapen
The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake - v alter the shape of (something) by stress
His body was deformed by leprosy - v assume a different shape or form
- This job is given to children as young as four years old, whose small bodies are light enough not to deform the still-soft bricks.
- This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means.
- Spoons vigorously stroked all the way to a high polish don't deform unless a little actual physical bending is applied, but that fact doesn't interfere with the parties taking .