disfeature

verb — 2 senses

disfeature

verb

Etymology From dis- + feature. Compare defeature.

1

To deprive of features

  • Denuded and disfeatured within, and bristling without with bricklayers' ladders, the place was yet extraordinarily impressive and interesting1884, Henry James, A Little Tour in France:
2

to spoil the features of.

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