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Princeton's WordNet

  1. deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapenadjective

    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"

  2. distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twistedadjective

    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"

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  1. distorted

    Distorted generally refers to something that has been twisted or altered in a way that it becomes misshapen or inaccurately represented. This could apply to physical objects, perceptions, sounds, or information that have been changed from their original or true states, often leading to misinterpretation or misunderstanding. The term is used in various contexts such as in art, psychology, communication, and electronics.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Distorted

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Wikidata

  1. Distorted

    Distorted is a progressive death/doom metal band from Bat-Yam, Israel.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Distorted in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Distorted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Distorted in a Sentence

  1. Wang Baomin:

    Companies that get subsidies through connections are cruising without feeling any competition or fully grasping the technology, i'm afraid robots will walk down the path of China's solar industry, with its market development distorted.

  2. Jennifer Bellingtier:

    The media presents a distorted view of aging, making jokes about mental and physical incompetence, the more you’re exposed to it the more you’re picking up those stereotypes.

  3. Mia Bloom:

    The way you got the kids out of child soldiering in Liberia, Uganda or Mozambique was you use two things. You use the family and you use religion, the problem with ISIS is that they've distorted the religion, and the families are colluding with ISIS to allow them access to the kids. So there's additional challenges, and we don't have a really good template to use ... it's a big problem.

  4. Peggy Orenstein:

    Girls are learning at the youngest ages that their value comes from how they look, and the definition of attractive is very narrowly defined as being sexy or sassy (for the younger girls), sexuality is imposed upon them inappropriately, and they are encouraged to define their bodies -- not by how their bodies feel to themselves, but by how they look to others. This creates vulnerabilities for girls to the pitfalls we worry about -- distorted body image, eating disorders, depression and unhealthy sexual behavior.

  5. Seth Winter:

    It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that.

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