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verb

past tense of distort

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Recent Examples of distorted
Adjective
Remember That Both Extremes Are Dangerous Both these red flags lead to avoiding real intimacy due to distorted perceptions. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 Cranking up the Threshold slider reduced all background noise but resulted in a distorted, twangy sound. PC Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
In two cases, failure of the vehicles' rearview cameras may cause blank or distorted images to appear, limiting the ability of drivers to utilize the backup feature and increasing crash risk. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025 The top 12 trends of the fall 2025 season—which range from cozy to cubist and are designed for work and play—somehow manage to navigate smoothly through a time as distorted as a reflection in a funhouse mirror. Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for distorted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distorted
Adjective
  • Along with the monstrous rear tires helping to support heavy loads, Addmotor has also included a heavy duty rear axle that's said to be 20% thicker than other models on the market.
    Paul Ridden May 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
  • But the Panthers, again, pose a monstrous challenge.
    Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • From New York to Miami, the vacation rental market has long been under attack — often misrepresented by powerful hotel lobbies and blamed for housing challenges by policymakers and local residents.
    Shaun McCorry, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The agency has consistently concealed Hamas’s abuses and misrepresented Israel’s counterterrorism efforts.
    Avraham Russell Shalev, National Review, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The show, based on the video game franchise of the same name, is nearing the end of its second season, which takes place five years after the events of its first, decades after a viral fungus turned much of humanity into deformed, zombie-like creatures.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 11 May 2025
  • All the players corroborate a truism: Politics attracts deformed personalities featuring an insatiable lust of power for the sake of power to fuel self-esteem.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Physical exam: Your provider will look at the back of your knee, checking for signs of swelling, bruising, redness, or misshapen muscles or ligaments.
    Sarah Bradley, Health, 11 May 2025
  • Never soak leather or put it in the washing machine, which can result in dry, cracked, misshapen gloves that end up in the trash.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Seven goats became pregnant; six had miscarriages, but one kid was born—with a malformed lung.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The sci-fi series has given us everything from mutant super-soldiers to all-out war between a farmer and an army of rats.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Eastman and Laird created a comic based on four mutant turtles that possess keen martial arts abilities, which was meant to be a one-shot, but ended up becoming a phenomenon.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The ball curled through the proverbial eye of a needle, between Diogo Jota and Darwin Nunez, and behind Alexis Mac Allister, who was forced to spin on his heels.
    Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The old woman, though, stares at the screen, the shadow of a smile curled into her lips and a frown barely creasing her forehead.
    Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025

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“Distorted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distorted. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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