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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

기형적으로 만들다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gihyeongjeogeuro mandeulda

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Malform/ˌmælˈfɔːrm/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"화학 물질은 세포를 기형적으로 만들 수 있습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To form or shape badly, irregularly, or abnormally.

    "Exposure to toxins during early development can cause the embryonic tissues to malform."
  2. 2

    To develop into an abnormal structure or shape due to structural defect or growth disturbance.

    "The mineral deficiency caused the plant's leaves to malform prematurely."
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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin prefix 'mal-', meaning bad or ill, combined with the verb 'formare', meaning to shape or form. Entering English in the late 16th century, the term retained its literal sense of shaping incorrectly or abnormally.

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