He took a hammer and went to the statue and started to disfigure it.
The word "noxious" comes from the Latin word "noxa" meaning injury.
FAT
injury
The root word of "injured" is "injure," which comes from the Latin word "injurare," meaning "to wrong or harm."
Reproach praise
Mar= sea as in marine marine biologist marfire and etc
The analogy for adorn and disfigure is that adorn is to make something look better. Disfigure means to spoil the shape or appearance.
Reproach : praise completes the analogy.
"Mangle" means to mutilate or deform. Some synonyms of this word are "distort", "maim", "damage", "destroy", "disfigure", "wound", "wreck", and "twist".
The plural word for injury is injuries.
The analogy that best completes "adorn: disfigure" is "enhance: impair." Just as "adorn" means to decorate or add beauty while "disfigure" means to spoil or mar the appearance, "enhance" refers to improving or adding value, while "impair" means to weaken or damage. Both pairs illustrate oppositional relationships where one word represents a positive action and the other a negative one.