Distorted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Distorting}.]
     1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside
        physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
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              Whose face was distorted with pain.   --Thackeray.
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     2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to
        twist aside mentally or morally.
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              Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and
              distort the understandings of men.    --Tillotson.
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     3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort
        passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
  
     Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  distorted
       adj 1: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with
              contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments
              of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn:
               {contorted}, {twisted}]
       2: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed
          thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an
          ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot";
          "misshapen old fingers" [syn: {deformed}, {ill-shapen}, {malformed},
           {misshapen}]
       3: having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many
          of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to
          reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem" [syn: {misrepresented},
           {perverted}, {twisted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  164 Moby Thesaurus words for "distorted":
     aberrant, abroad, adrift, affected, all abroad, all off, all wrong,
     amiss, anamorphous, apocryphal, artificial, askew, assumed, astray,
     asymmetric, at fault, awry, bastard, bent, beside the mark,
     blemished, bogus, bowed, brummagem, catachrestic, checked,
     cicatrized, cockeyed, colorable, colored, contorted, corrupt,
     counterfeit, counterfeited, cracked, crazed, crazy, crooked,
     crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defaced, defective, deflected,
     deflective, deformed, delusive, deviant, deviational, deviative,
     diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, disfigured, dispersed,
     dressed up, dummy, eisegetical, embellished, embroidered, errant,
     erring, erroneous, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked, fallacious,
     false, falsified, faultful, faulty, feigned, fictitious, fictive,
     flawed, flectional, flexed, garbled, heretical, heterodox,
     illegitimate, illogical, illusory, imitation, inflective,
     irregular, junky, keloidal, kinked, labyrinthine, lopsided,
     make-believe, man-made, marred, misapprehended, misconceived,
     misconstrued, misinterpreted, misread, mistaken, misunderstood,
     mock, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track,
     one-sided, out, peccant, perverse, perverted, phony, pimpled,
     pimply, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi, queer,
     refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scabbed, scabby,
     scarified, scarred, scattered, self-contradictory, self-styled,
     sham, shoddy, simulated, skew, skewed, so-called, soi-disant,
     split, sprung, spurious, straying, supposititious, synthetic, tin,
     tinsel, titivated, tortuous, twisted, unauthentic, unfactual,
     ungenuine, unnatural, unorthodox, unproved, unreal, unsymmetric,
     untrue, warped, wide, wrong