What is the meaning of distorted?

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"
  • 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"
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APAWordNet. (2010). distorted. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/distorted/definitions/1172695
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