verb
- Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.
- Form into a spiral shape.
- usage: "The cord is all twisted"
- Twist and press out of shape.
- Affect as in thought or feeling.
- usage: "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
- Alter the shape of (something) by stress.
- usage: "His body was deformed by leprosy"
adjective
- So badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly.
- usage: "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
- synonyms: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen
- Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented.
- usage: "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
- synonyms: misrepresented, perverted, twisted
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