Man has even come to regard as æsthetic, women's corsets which deform their chests, and pointed shoes which deform the feet.
False thoughts and misplaced phrases deformthe whole of the third act.
Of these the first is perhaps the best known; his verses are not destitute of spirit, but extravagance and bad taste deform the greater part.
The hereditary tendencies to disease, the errors of sexual hygiene, especially those regarding maternity, reveal to us the principal causes of that accumulation of imperfections that oppress and deform the average normal human being.
On the other hand, if fear-thoughts are continuously sown in the young mind they will eventually distort the emotions, deform the conceptions, and wholly demoralize the health and life activities of the growing child.
The cloth must be next cropped or cut upon the face, to remove the shreds of wool which deform the surface in every direction.
Every one is clean; for no house above the few hovels which stilldeform the country is without soap and bowls for washing, and it is the business of the females to take care that the linen of the family is constantly washed.
The mantled bullets do not deformas readily in handling, shipping, etc.
This causes them to deform slightly on the circle of contact with the barrel, and creates a narrow cylindrical surface around the bullet, securing a better bearing and greatly increasing the accuracy.
For so it is, oaths as they commonly pass are mere excrescences of speech, which do nothing but encumber and deform it; they so embellish discourse, as a wen or a scab do beautify a face, as a patch or a spot do adorn a garment.
Soon will savage Mars Deform the lovely ringlets of thy shrubs.
The hats which children wear, usually compress and deform the pavilion.
To follow a method of education inspired by any other principle, is to complicate life, deform it, sow the seeds of all disorders.
Know, however, that there are many in foreign lands who lament the darkness which envelops Spain, and the scenes of cruelty, robbery, and murder which deform it.
How far they are from being able to appreciate lips esthetically appears from the way in which they so often deform them.
It may deform a fixed body against its external supports and resistances.
Thus a material that is difficult to bend or otherwise deform is stiff; one that is easily bent or otherwise deformed is flexible.
By external force is meant any force outside of a given piece of material which tends to deform it in any manner.
It may deform the struck body as a whole against the resisting stresses developed by its own inertia, as, for example, when a baseball bat is broken by striking the ball.
We have already seen some of those political definitions, which at this hour deform the Doctor's Dictionary.
A monster, such as he draws here, can seldom deform existence.
Look at the miserable caricatures of the female form printed in our fashionable magazines, and even in our daily papers, and sent forth and freely spread before our young girls, for them to pattern after, and thus deform themselves.
The fact that individuals who drink intoxicating drinks, smoke or chew tobacco, or deform their bodies by tight dressing, sometimes live to old age under otherwise favorable circumstances, amounts to nothing.
Take but half the pains to recover the countenance that nature gave you, that you must have taken to disguise and deform it as you have, and the business will be done.
Vulgar, coarse, and ill-chosen words, will deform and degrade the best thoughts as much as rags and dirt will the best figure.
I dread every little corner that may deform mine, in which I would have (if possible) no one defect.
The Chinese, who torture the feet of their women, also deform their trees, so that they remain dwarfed and crooked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deform" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
