Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Disproportion

Disproportion , noun

[Prefix dis- + proportion: compare French disproportion.]

1.
Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
2.
Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

Disproportion , transitive verb

To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. — Shakespeare
A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. — Prescott