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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

deformare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: deformare

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Misform/mɪsˈfɔːrm/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il calore può deformare il materiale plastico."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To form or shape badly, wrongly, or irregularly; to deform or distort.

    "Poor kiln temperatures can cause the clay to misform during the drying process."
  2. 2

    To conceive or construct an idea or concept incorrectly.

    "The committee tended to misform their conclusions based on incomplete preliminary data."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the English negative prefix 'mis-' (from Old English 'mis-', indicating wrong or bad) and the verb 'form' (from Old French 'former' and Latin 'formare', meaning to shape or mold). First recorded in the late 16th century, it describes the action of shaping something incorrectly or giving it a faulty structure.

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