deform

Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.

[…] I did proclame, / That vvho ſo kild that monſter moſt deforme, / And him in hardy battayle ouercame, / Should haue mine onely daughter to his Dame, and of my kingdome heyre apparaunt bee: […]

Sight ſo deform what heart of Rock could long / Drie-ey’d behold?

To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.

I that am curtaild of this faire proportion / Cheated of feature by diſſembling nature, / Deformd, vnfinisht, ſent before my time / Into this breathing vvorld ſcarce halfe made vp, / And that ſo lamely and vnfaſhionable, / That dogs barke at me as I halt by them: […]

They ſay this tovvne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke vvorking Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing VVitches, that deforme the bodie: […]

To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.

To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.

a face deformed by bitterness

Shortly vnto the vvaſtefull vvoods ſhe came, / VVhereas ſhe found the Goddeſſe vvith her crevv, / […] / Some of them vvaſhing vvith the liquid devv / From of their dainty limbs the duſty ſvveat, / And ſoyle vvhich did deforme their liuely hevv, […]

To mar the character or quality of (something).

a marriage deformed by jealousy

[Y]our beautie Ladies / Hath much deformed vs, faſhioning our humours / Euen to the oppoſed ende of our ententes.

To become changed in shape or misshapen.

If I answer that metal’s hard and shiny and cold to the touch and deforms without breaking under blows from a harder material, [David] Hume says those are all sights and sounds and touch. There’s no substance. Tell me what metal is apart from these sensations. Then, of course, I’m stuck.