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/dɪstˈɔrtəd/ /dɪstˈɔrtɪd/ Listen

verb

Distort v. t. (past & past part. distorted; pres. part. distorting)

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."

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."

To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

Synonyms: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.

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Etymology of 'Distorted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... in Company H, no voice would henceforth respond to my name distorted. My comrades would curse my memory. It must be my duty to battle against friends by whose sides I had faced danger and death. The glory of the Confederate victories would now bring me pain and not joy. Oh! the ...

— Who Goes There? • Blackwood Ketcham Benson

... of the burning bush appeared to Moses alone; the other shepherds with him saw nothing of it. He took five steps in the direction of the bush, to view it at close range, and when God beheld the countenance of Moses distorted by grief and anxiety over Israel's suffering, He spake, "This one is worthy of the office of ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... off the Appian Way and were crossing a corner of that unutterably hideous stretch of tortured and distorted waste known as the Campagna, which goes tumbling away to the blue Alban Mountains, when we came on the scene of an accident. A two-wheeled mule cart, proceeding along a crossroad, with the driver asleep in his canopied seat, had been hit by a speeding automobile ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... portray The giant thoughts of Otway. I was Pierre.— O, thou art Pierre's reality! a soldier, On whose manly brow sits fortitude enamour'd! A Mars, abhorring vice, yet doom'd to die A death of infamy; thy corse expos'd To vulgar gaze—halter'd—distorted—Oh!! [Pauses, and then adds in a low, hollow voice. Pierre had a friend to save him from such shame— ...

— Andre • William Dunlap

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— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky

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