defeature noun & verb.
[dɪ'fi:tʃǝ] arch. L16.[Old French deffaiture, desfaiture destruction, disguise, from desfaire: see DEFEAT verb, -URE. In sense A.2 assoc. with FEATURE noun (cf. DISFEATURE).]A. noun.
1. a. Undoing, ruin.
L16-E17.b. Defeat.
L16-M19.2. (A) disfigurement, a marring of features.
L16.■ Shakespeare Comedy of Errors Careful hours with time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face.b. verb trans. Disfigure.
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