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defeature

noun
/dɪˈfiːtjʊə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From defeat + -ure.

  1. derived from defet — “disfigured”
  2. inherited from defeten
  3. suffixed as defeature — “defeat + ure”

Definitions

  1. Defeat, overthrow, ruin.

    • This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature

  2. To deform.

  3. Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.

    • What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.
    • But no discovery was made, for no volley of reproach was uttered, and could they have looked in their mother's face they might have seen that strange defeatures were written there.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defeature. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA