Overview of verb distort

The verb distort has 5 senses

• falsify, distort, garble, warp -- (make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story)


• twist, twine, distort -- (form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted")


• contort, deform, distort, wring -- (twist and press out of shape)


• tinge, color, colour, distort -- (affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life")


• deform, distort, strain -- (alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy")

Overview of adj distorted

The adj distorted has 2 senses

• deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen -- (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")


• distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted -- (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")