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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISTORTED, pp. Twisted out of natural or regular shape; wrested; perverted.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen]
2: 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: distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see distort

Moby Thesaurus

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