disfiguringgerundium / partizip präsens Used attributively and predicatively as a participial adjective.
The accident left him with a disfiguring scar on his face.
L'accident lui a laissé une cicatrice défigurante sur le visage.
Gerund meaning ‘the act or process of disfiguring’.
The disfiguring of historic monuments is a serious offence.
La défiguration des monuments historiques est une infraction grave.