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Distorted   /dɪstˈɔrtəd/  /dɪstˈɔrtɪd/   Listen
Distorted

adjective
1.
So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly.  Synonyms: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen.  "His poor distorted limbs" , "An ill-shapen vase" , "A limp caused by a malformed foot" , "Misshapen old fingers"
2.
Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented.  Synonyms: misrepresented, perverted, twisted.  "A perverted translation of the poem"


Distort

verb
(past & past part. distorted; pres. part. distorting)
1.
Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.  Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp.
2.
Form into a spiral shape.  Synonyms: twine, twist.  Antonym: untwist.
3.
Twist and press out of shape.  Synonyms: contort, deform, wring.
4.
Affect as in thought or feeling.  Synonyms: color, colour, tinge.  "The sadness tinged his life"
5.
Alter the shape of (something) by stress.  Synonyms: deform, strain.



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"Distorted" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a sarcastic grin, and went on reading a little volume of Poe that he carried in his pocket. At another time I cornered him in the Funny Man's room and succeeded in getting a little out of him. We were taught literature by an exceedingly analytical method at the University, and we probably distorted the method, and I was busy trying to find the least common multiple of Hamlet and the greatest common divisor of Macbeth, and I began asking him whether stories were constructed by cabalistic formulae. At length he sighed wearily and shook ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... view the city itself becomes degraded to an unintelligible mass of distorted buildings and impossible perspectives; the revered ocean is a duck pond; the earth itself a lost golf ball. All the minutiae of life are gone. The philosopher gazes into the infinite heavens above him, and allows his soul to expand to ...
— Strictly Business • O. Henry
... been to Mr. Osmond, it must be admitted that she found them sufficient to lead her to put to Ralph sundry questions about him. She thought Ralph's judgements distorted by his trials, but she flattered herself she had learned to make allowance ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1 (of 2) • Henry James
... him!" Foster burst out raucously. He had removed the green abat-jour, for the candle-shades (as they sometimes will) were performing their office. In the low but clear light his face seemed distorted. ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... was weird and full of distorted shadows. Through the long windows of stained glass which lit the great staircase the moon shone, its rays striking straight across the upper landing. Several of the doors were closed. They ...
— The White Lie • William Le Queux


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