as in monstrous
badly or imperfectly formed
surgery to correct a distorted foot
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as in misrepresented
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
the coach's message was so distorted after passing through so many people that it was unintelligible
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as in deformed
to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition
if you keep distorting your face like that, someday it's going to freeze in that position
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Recent Examples of distorted
ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
Perhaps most damaging, leadership gains a distorted picture of team health.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Designed to help European navigators at sea, the map distorted landmasses by enlarging regions near the poles such as North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Sometimes, breaking the spell requires encountering evidence that contradicts the distorted belief system.
—ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
Perhaps most damaging, leadership gains a distorted picture of team health.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
Silvery or mottled patches on leaves, brown or distorted petal edges, dark specks (feces) or flower buds that fail to open are signs of thrips.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Designed to help European navigators at sea, the map distorted landmasses by enlarging regions near the poles such as North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
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The Marlins sent 10 hitters to the plate in the first inning Sunday and scored four runs, three of them on Otto Lopez’s monstrous 424-foot blast into the seats in left field.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Her monstrous transformations are killing her, and the device Isaac invented will take her powers away and give her her health back.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Pulte alleged in the April Department of Justice referral that James potentially misrepresented property descriptions and claimed her primary residential status as Norfolk.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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Yet in women, the condition is often misunderstood and misrepresented, therefore delaying their diagnosis for years.—
Jennifer Shanker,
Flow Space,
27 Aug. 2025
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As a result, his vocals have a kind of stately yet starry-eyed quality, giving structure to these deformed, cosmic beats from the internet abyss.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Sep. 2025
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Shortly after their release in early 2023, some Ryzen 7000-series X3D chips were becoming physically deformed, developing bulges on the bottom that could permanently damage the CPU and bend the pins in the CPU socket.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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That change of course also makes the episode feel a bit misshapen.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
28 Aug. 2025
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Some are massive and geologically active, while others are tiny, misshapen rocks silently circling their hosts.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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It can be twisted to create multiple different shapes and angles (a dream for leaning up against the window), and therefore, can be used in ways that standard neck pillows cannot, such as a lumbar support pillow.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Aug. 2025
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Silver mylar tape is twisted and hung between fence posts, or cut into strips and hung on fencing.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
23 Aug. 2025
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Yet part of the force of it is that Michôd has not contorted Christy Martin’s life into some false arc; what was going on beneath her triumph is portrayed with a desperate and idiosyncratic honesty.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The third cub — a female — was found to have a malformed shoulder and elbow, likely congenital, as well as a bullet embedded in her front paw, Thompson said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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The staffer adds in the video that only one of the snake's heads has eaten so far, and the East Bay Vivarium believes the non-eating head has a malformed esophagus.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
2 May 2025
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Emily Brontë appears in every way indifferent to the need for love and companionship that tortured the lives of her sisters.—
Emily Temple
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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Several women were tortured and gang raped.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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