Usually means: Altering shape through force, stress.
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  1. deforming: Merriam-Webster
  2. deforming: Collins English Dictionary
  3. deforming: Vocabulary.com
  4. deforming: Wordnik
  5. deforming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. deforming: Wiktionary
  7. Deforming, deforming: Dictionary.com
  8. Deforming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Deforming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Deforming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. deforming: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. deforming: FreeDictionary.org
  13. deforming: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. deforming: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See deform as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deform)

adjective:  (obsolete except poetic) Having an unusual and unattractive shape; deformed, misshapen; hence, hideous, ugly.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
verb:  (engineering, physics) To alter the shape of (something) by applying a force or stress.
verb:  (also figuratively) To change the look of (something), usually thus making it imperfect or unattractive; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual appearance.
verb:  To mar the character or quality of (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To become changed in shape or misshapen.
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