Definition of "defeature" []

• Defeat, overthrow, ruin (noun)
• Disfigurement, defacing (noun)

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• "So, the neat new features that the phone manufacturers come up with bluetooth–geez Verizon, JUST getting a bluetooth phone NOW? and you defeature it to make more money?"
• "And pure perfection with impure defeature — how far those may be to blame, it is not my work to inquire."
• "Even had we, however, a perfect and trustworthy transcript of Shakespeare's original sketch for this play, there can be little doubt that the rough draught would still prove almost as different from the final masterpiece as is the soiled and ragged canvas now before us, on which we trace the outline of figures so strangely disfigured, made subject to such rude extremities of defacement and defeature."