| 单词 | malformed |
| 释义 | malformed (once / 35708 pages) adj Something malformed has a shape that's twisted or warped, or otherwise distorted. Your first try at making pottery might result in a couple of malformed bowls. If you leave a doll in the hot sunlight for hours, she may melt and become malformed. Sometimes parts of the body are malformed because of birth defects or accidents. If you're born with a malformed spine, you may wear a brace to straighten it out. If your feet are malformed, your choice of shoes will be limited. Malformed combines the prefix mal-, "badly or wrongly," with formed, from the Latin forma, "shape or appearance." WORD FAMILYmalformed USAGE EXAMPLESOther key structures on his heart’s left side are too small or malformed to work. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) The presence of enlarged or malformed capillaries in this area, the nail fold, indicate an underlying connective tissue disease. New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) The researchers initially thought that the loss of syncytin created a malformed placenta that hampered the growth of the mice before birth. Nature(Sep 11, 2016) adj so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly a limp caused by a malformed foot Syn deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen unshapely not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape |
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