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# deformity

«deformity» in Mova's school dictionary: **a part of the body that has an unusual or twisted shape…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a deformity, deformities)

### meaning for a pupil

A deformity is a part of the body that has an unusual or twisted shape, from birth or after illness or injury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Used in medicine and history (doctors treat deformities with operations or special shoes and braces). In lessons on kindness and disability, people with a deformity deserve respect; many prefer words like «difference» or «condition». In older stories, deformity is sometimes wrongly used to show a character is evil — a myth.

### examples

- The surgeon corrected the deformity in the baby's foot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x1)
- A clubfoot is a deformity that can be treated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x2)
- She was born with a hand deformity but plays the piano brilliantly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x3)
- The illness left him with a deformity of the spine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x4)
- Making fun of someone's deformity is cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x5)
- Doctors now treat many deformities in early childhood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x6)
- Setting aside my ugliness and deformity, is there any thing in me which displeases you? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/#x7)

### note

Countable: deformities. Myth: in old stories, an unusual body shows a bad person — this is false and unfair. Kind language: «a difference», «a condition».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deformity» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deformity/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.