defigure

See also: défiguré and défigure

English

Etymology

de- +‎ figure

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/

Verb

defigure (third-person singular simple present defigures, present participle defiguring, simple past and past participle defigured)

1. (obsolete) To delineate.
   • 1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments:

     These two stones as they are here defigured.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “defigure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)