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DISTORTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
Example:
a perverted translation of the poem
Synonyms:
distorted; misrepresented; perverted; twisted
Classified under:
Similar:
artful; disingenuous (not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly
Example:
misshapen old fingers
Synonyms:
deformed; distorted; ill-shapen; malformed; misshapen
Classified under:
Similar:
unshapely (not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb distort
Context examples:
Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a warping-of-space phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.
(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)
An eating disorder marked by an intense fear of gaining weight, a refusal to maintain a healthy weight, and a distorted body image.
(Anorexia nervosa, NCI Dictionary)
It is characterized by the presence of a distorted epithelium, inflammation, and fibrosis.
(Colon Inflammatory Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)
A condition in which a sense, especially touch, is distorted.
(Dysesthesia, NCI Dictionary)
The eight quasars and galaxies were aligned so precisely that the warping effect, called gravitational lensing, produced four distorted images of each quasar.
(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)
Martin saw his passion-distorted face and wondered what could be the cause of the fellow's anger.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
A finding indicating the presence of Barrett esophagus in which the crypts are preserved or mildly distorted.
(Low Grade Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)
Here was a face with flashing eyes and distorted features, a face convulsed with hatred and with the mad joy of gratified revenge.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My horror and astonishment are not to be described, when I observed in this abominable animal, a perfect human figure: the face of it indeed was flat and broad, the nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide; but these differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the countenance are distorted, by the natives suffering their infants to lie grovelling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nuzzling with their face against the mothers’ shoulders.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Making our way among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
