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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr & vb n. {Distorting}.] 1. 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. --Thackeray. 2. 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. --Tillotson. 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: distorted adj 1: strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders" [syn: {contorted}, {twisted}] 2: 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" [syn: {deformed}, {ill-shapen}, {malformed}, {misshapen}] 3: 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" [syn: {misrepresented}, {perverted}, {twisted}]
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