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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɪˈfɔːm/
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• General-American: /dəˈfɔɹm/
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• rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)m
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• CMU ARPABET: D IY2 F AO1 R M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English deforme (“out of shape, deformed”) [and other forms], from Middle French deforme (modern French difforme (“misshapen, deformed”)), or directly from its etymon Latin dēfōrmis (“departing physically from the correct shape, deformed, malformed, misshapen, ugly; (figuratively) departing morally from the correct quality, base, disgraceful, shameful, unbecoming”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; from’) + fōrma (“form, appearance, figure, shape; fine form, beauty; design, outline, plan; model, pattern; mould, stamp; (figuratively) kind, manner, sort”) (further etymology unknown; perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape; appearance; outline; kind, type”), probably from Pre-Greek, but there is no consensus) + -is (suffix forming adjectives of the third declension).

From Middle English deformen (“to disfigure, distort, or mar; (figuratively) to disfigure morally; to defame; to dishonour”) [and other forms], equivalent to de- + form, from Old French deformer [and other forms] (modern French déformer (“to contort, distort, twist out of shape; (figuratively) to pervert”)), or directly from its etymon Latin dēfōrmāre (whence Medieval Latin difformāre), the present active infinitive of dēfōrmō (“to fashion, form; to delineate, describe; to design; to deform, disfigure; to mar, spoil”), from dē- (prefix meaning ‘away from; from’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, shape; to format”) (from fōrma (noun); see further at etymology 1). Cognates * Catalan deformar (“to deform”) * Italian deformare (“to deform; to distort, warp”) * Occitan deformar * Portuguese deformar (“to deform”) * Spanish deformar, desformar (“to deform, disfigure”)

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: деформирам (deformiram) — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Catalan: deformar — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Danish: deformere — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Finnish: rumentaa — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Finnish: runnella — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Finnish: turmella — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• French: déformer — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Hungarian: eldeformál — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Hungarian: deformál — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Hungarian: elrontja az alakját — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Italian: deformare — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Japanese: 歪める (yugameru) — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Middle English: deformen — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Polish: odkształcać — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Polish: odkształcić — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Portuguese: deformar — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Spanish: deformar — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Spanish: desformar — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Spanish: disformar — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Swedish: deformera — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Ukrainian: деформува́ти (deformuváty) — to change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular
• Bulgarian: деформирам (deformiram) — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Danish: deformere — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Finnish: muovata — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Finnish: deformoida — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Hungarian: deformál — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Hungarian: megváltoztatja az alakját — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Spanish: desformar — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Spanish: disformar — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Swedish: deformera — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Ukrainian: деформува́ти (deformuváty) — to alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress
• Bulgarian: обезобразявам (obezobrazjavam) — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Finnish: tärvellä — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Finnish: turmella — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Hungarian: elcsúfít — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Hungarian: eltorzít — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Middle English: deformen — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Polish: deformować — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Polish: odkształcać — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Polish: odkształcić — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Portuguese: deformar — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Ukrainian: деформува́ти (deformuváty) — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Ukrainian: спотво́рювати (spotvórjuvaty) — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Ukrainian: спотво́рити (spotvóryty) — to change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive
• Finnish: tärvellä — to mar the character or quality of (something)
• Ukrainian: деформува́ти (deformuváty) — to mar the character or quality of (something)
• Ukrainian: спотво́рювати (spotvórjuvaty) — to mar the character or quality of (something)
• Ukrainian: спотво́рити (spotvóryty) — to mar the character or quality of (something)
• Bulgarian: деформирам се (deformiram se) — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Danish: deformere — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Finnish: rusentua — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Finnish: vääntyä — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Hungarian: eldeformálódik — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Hungarian: deformálódik — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Polish: odkształcać się — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Polish: odkształcić się — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Spanish: deformarse — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Spanish: disformarse — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Spanish: desformarse — to become changed in shape or misshapen
• Swedish: deformera — to become changed in shape or misshapen