Distorted

Definition: Distorted

Distorted

Adjective

1. Strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders".

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".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "distorted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Distorted

Distortion

Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.

Crosswords: Distorted

But I stopped writing them when I found out what he was all about, when I realized how real he was. He could never fit in with our distorted viewpoint, because he's honest, and sincere, and good (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information (2001: A Space Odyssey; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick; Arthur C. Clarke)

Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality (2003)

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Books

• 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (The Writer and the City) (reference)

• Distorted Truth (reference)

• Everything You Need to Know About Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Dealing With a Distorted Body Image (Need to Know Library) (reference)

• Local Lattice Rotations and Disclinations in Microstructures of Distorted Crystalline Materials: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Local (reference)

• Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Distorted Dimensions (reference)

• Distorted Ghost [EP] (reference)

• Distorted Lullabies (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Superficial spreading melanoma arising from a dysplastic nevus. The 4-by-8-mm, pink-tan lesion with irregular borders at the upper left (arrow) is a dysplastic nevus. Arising from it is an invasive malignant melanoma, with its characteristic blue-black color, notched border, and distorted surface. The gray area at the lower left represents tumor regression. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

USS South Dakota (BB-57) and two destroyers alongside USS Prometheus (AR-3) for repairs, probably at Noumea, New Caledonia, in November 1942. The inboard destroyer, with the distorted bow, is probably USS Mahan (DD-364), which was damaged in a collision with South Dakota at the close of the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 27 October 1942. South Dakota received damage in both that battle and in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942. The other destroyer may be USS Lamson (DD-367). Credit: NAVY.

Wreck of the Spanish cruiser Reina Cristina, photographed from aft looking forward with four U.S. Navy sailors posing amidships, sometime after the battle. Note poop deck beams distorted by fire, with wooden decking burned off. This image may be reversed. Other views of the wreck show the after smokestack leaning to port, not starboard. Credit: NAVY.

Damage to the ship's starboard bow from the 29 September 1918 explosion of a mine laid by the German submarine U-117. Photographed in drydock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 1 October 1918. Note hull plating pushed into internal framing and many split seams with open rivet holes. The side armor at the top of the view does not appear to have been much distorted, if at all, by the explosion. Credit: NAVY.

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For them all is distorted, all is broken, even ground to pulp. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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The silhouettes of the bridges were distorted in the mist, one behind the other

By day and by night he moved among distorted images of the outer world

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Health

Specifically, the disorder causes a person's writing to be distorted or incorrect. (references)

Sounds may become distorted or muffled, and it may be difficult for the person to understand speech. (references)

Symptoms signaling a headache, such as distorted vision or speech, may then result, similar to symptoms of stroke. (references)

Business

Finally, it is important to note that the import statistics for American products in France are slightly distorted because of the re-export phenomenon. (references)

Growth rates used throughout the study are expressed in current Euro terms, as growth rates measured in dollars are distorted by exchange rate fluctuations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

News reports often are distorted. (references)

Poland

The department has been criticized by Seventh-Day Adventist church leaders, who allege that the "antisect" training material gives a distorted picture of minority religions that could lead to discrimination against them. (references)

Fiji

The acts give the Minister of Information sole discretionary power to order a newspaper to publish a "correcting statement" if, in the Minister's view, a false or distorted article is published; however, this provision never has been used. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

The largely distorted exchange rate and prices were realigned to encourage production and exports. (references)

Ukraine

Ukraine's energy market, despite improved transparency, remains corrupt and energy prices are still distorted. (references)

Nepal

Although the Government of Nepal is open to foreign direct investment, implementation of its policies is often distorted by bureaucratic delays and inefficiency. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Authorities asserted that Robinson distorted the true nature of the state of affairs and that Russia never hid the truth about the situation in Chechnya. (references)

Guatemala

In its 12th report, MINUGUA expressed the concern that the same manipulation that distorted the Prosecutor's Office investigation appeared to have influenced the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office findings as well. (references)

Colombia

Human Rights Watch sharply criticized the Government for failing to address effectively the problem of continued military-paramilitary cooperation and general impunity for human rights violators and also charged that the Government exaggerated the effectiveness of its actions against paramilitarism with "a sophisticated public relations campaign." Presidential Human Rights Program Director Reinaldo Botero vigorously denied that his office published distorted information and criticized the "immoderate tone" of the report. (references)

Trade

Korea

After the 1997-98 economic shock, the government decided that its foreign loan system was distorted, and eased its restrictions on foreign long-term credit. (references)

Travel

Colombia

In spite of the negative perceptions reflected through the often distorted prism of international news reporting about Colombia's security problems, first-time business visitors are usually pleasantly surprised at the high level of development and sophistication of the Colombian private sector. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "distorted": become distorted ♦ distorted image ♦ distorted selvedge ♦ distorted shaft ♦ distorted shape ♦ geometrically distorted model ♦ vertically distorted model. Additional references.

Ending with "distorted": echo-distorted, non-distorted.

Albanian

i shtrembëruar (deflected, depraved, sophisticated, splay, strained, swivel-eyed, twisted, warped), i shfytyruar (disfigured), i ndryshuar (varied). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محرف, ‏مصحف, ‏مشوه (defaced, deformed, disfigured, malformed, marred, misshapen, shapeless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

извратен (crooked, depraved, kinky, perverse, perverted, sick), изопачен (perverted, strained). (various references)

Chinese 

变形 (Deformation, Distort, Distorting, metamorphic, metamorphose, Metamorphosed, Metamorphoses, Metamorphosing, metamorphosis, transmogrify, Variant). (various references)

Czech

zkřivený (crooked, screwed, screwed up). (various references)

Danish

det synes som om disse kim er dele af det deformerede metal,som er mindre uregelmaessige end de omkringliggende omraader (these nuclei appear to be regions of cold-worked metal which are less distorted than the zones adjacent to them), ved en haevning af temperaturen kan nogle af dislokationerne forsvinde og resten kan samle sig til dislokationsvaegge,saa at de danner underkorngraenser,der omgiver underkorn,der er mindre uregelmaessige end oprindelig (on raising the temperature some of the dislocations are annihilated and the remainder line up in dislocation walls to form sub-grain boundaries emClosing sub-grains ( or lattice blocks ) which are less distorted than they were initially), man havde den opfattelse, at deformationen fremmede omdannelsen ved at frembringe kim for martensitten i de uregelmaessige omraader i moderfasen (plastic deformation was considered to stimulate the transform=tion by generating martensite nuclei in the distorted regions of the parent phase), geometrisk fortegnet model (geometrically distorted model, vertically distorted model, vertically exaggerated model), forvrænget skala (distorted scale), forvrænget signal (distorted signal, distorted wave), forskudt kant (distorted selvedge), formaalet med en rekrystallisationsgloedning er at erstatte en uregelmaessig og kolddeformeret struktur med en ny struktur med nydannede korn (recrystallization annealing with a view to replacing a distorted or cold-worked structure by a new grain structure with newly formed crystallites). (various references)

Dutch

deze kernen schijnen delen koudvervormd metaal te zijn die minder vervormd zijn dan de aangrenzende zones (these nuclei appear to be regions of cold-worked metal which are less distorted than the zones adjacent to them), verwrongen vorm (distorted shape), verwrongen as (distorted shaft, out-of-true shaft, warped shaft), vervormde zelfkant (distorted selvedge), vervormde schaal (distorted scale), vervormd signaal (distorted signal, distorted wave), rekristalliserend gloeien ten einde een vervormde of veerstevigde structuur te vervangen door een nieuwe structuur met nieuw gevormde kristallieten (recrystallization annealing with a view to replacing a distorted or cold-worked structure by a new grain structure with newly formed crystallites), plastische deformatie werdt geacht de transformatie te bevorderen doordat het in de beschadigde zones van de oorsprongelijke fase martensietkiemen zou doen ontstaan (plastic deformation was considered to stimulate the transform=tion by generating martensite nuclei in the distorted regions of the parent phase), onregelmatige aansmelting (distorted weld), foutieve versmelting (distorted seal, mismatch), bij temperatuurverhoging kunnen de dislocaties gedeeltelijk verdwijnen en kunnen de resterende zich verenigen tot dislocatiewanden,waarbij zij de grenzen van subkristallen vormen die deze laatste omringen;deze subkristallen zijn minder verstoord dan oorsp (on raising the temperature some of the dislocations are annihilated and the remainder line up in dislocation walls to form sub-grain boundaries emClosing sub-grains ( or lattice blocks ) which are less distorted than they were initially). (various references)

Finnish

vääristynyt (twisted, warped), kiero (crooked, not straight, twisted, warped, wry). (various references)

French

déformé (disturbed), tordue (dislocated), biaisé, altéré. (various references)

German

verzerrte (warped), verdrehte (contorted, misrepresented, perverted, skewed). (various references)

Greek 

διεστραμμένοσ (aberrant, bestial, crooked, cross-grained, perverse, pervert, perverted), διαστραμμένος. (various references)

Hebrew 

משובש (confused, corrupt, disturbed, faulty, illegible), מקופח (denied, deprived, underdog, underprivileged), מעוות (deformed, drawn, malformed, perverse), מסולף (false, forged, garbled, perverted), מסורס (castrated, emasculated), נעוה (crooked, perverse, twisted). (various references)

Hungarian

torzult (deformed). (various references)

Indonesian

terbelokkan (shifted, turned), erot (in a row, wry). (various references)

Italian

un regime inteso a garantire che la concorrenza non sia falsata (a system ensuring that comPetition is not distorted), Sembra che questi germi siano particelle di metallo incrudito meno distorte di quelle adiacenti (these nuclei appear to be regions of cold-worked metal which are less distorted than the zones adjacent to them), segnale distorto (distorted signal, distorted wave), scala distorta (distorted scale), saldatura irregolare (distorted weld), saldatura distorta (distorted seal), onda distorta (distorted signal, distorted wave), modelli distorti (geometrically distorted model, vertically distorted model, vertically exaggerated model), la ricottura di ricristallizzazione e' effettuata al fine di modificare una struttura distorta o incrudita, ottenendo una nuova struttura a grani riformati (recrystallization annealing with a view to replacing a distorted or cold-worked structure by a new grain structure with newly formed crystallites), la deformazione plastica era considerata di stimolo alla trasformazione, generando nuclei di martensite nelle zone deformate della fase principale (plastic deformation was considered to stimulate the transform=tion by generating martensite nuclei in the distorted regions of the parent phase), forma distorta (distorted shape), Con un aumento di temperatura le dislocazioni possono scomparire in parte e quelle che restano raggrupparsi in pareti di dislocazioni formando dei bordi attorno ai sub-grani, i quali sono meno distorti che all'inizio (on raising the temperature some of the dislocations are annihilated and the remainder line up in dislocation walls to form sub-grain boundaries emClosing sub-grains ( or lattice blocks ) which are less distorted than they were initially), cimosa deformata (distorted selvedge), albero deformato (distorted shaft, out-of-true shaft, warped shaft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

牽強付会 (farfetched, forced, strained), 歪 (crooked, elliptical, irregular, oval, warped). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いびつ (crooked, elliptical, irregular, oval, warped), けんきょうふかい (farfetched, forced, strained). (various references)

Korean 

견강부회하는. (various references)

Manx

gammagh (wry), currit ass cummey, cleaynit (addicted, biased, coaxed, corrupted, induced, partial), cassit (contorted, legged, swung, twirled, twisted), cammit (perverted). (various references)

Pig Latin

istortedday.(various references)

Portuguese

um regime destinado a garantir que a concorrência não seja falseada (a system ensuring that comPetition is not distorted), soldadura irregular (distorted weld), soldadura distorcida (distorted seal), soldadura deformada (distorted seal), ourela deformada (distorted selvedge), modelo distorcido (geometrically distorted model, vertically distorted model, vertically exaggerated model), forma distorcida (distorted shape), eixo torcido (distorted shaft, out-of-true shaft, warped shaft), eixo falso (distorted shaft, out-of-true shaft, warped shaft). (various references)

Romanian

descompus (decomposed, haggard), deformat (corrupt, deformed, wry), sucit (twisted, uncommon, unnatural, unusual, whimsical, wrongheaded, wry), scãlâmb (deformed). (various references)

Russian 

искривленный (bowed, curved, deflected, drawn), искаженный (awry, corrupt, drawn, perverted, violent, warped, wry). (various references)

Scottish

cam (bent, blind of one eye, crooked). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvrnut (become distorted, turned, twisted), iskrivljen (wry). (various references)

Spanish

distorsionado, desvirtuado, deformado (deformed, disfigures, garbles), torcido (askew, awry, bent, crooked, furious, kinky, strained, turned, wry), tergiversado, falseado (forger), falsario (falsifier, forger), cambiado (apped, deflected, degenerate, dislocated, interchanged, turned). (various references)

Swedish

förvänd (perverse, perverted). (various references)

Turkish

saptırılmış, bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), biçimsiz (amorphous, formless, ill shaped, misshapen, off form, out of trim, rambling, sesquipedalian, shapeless, thrawn, ugly, unformed, ungainly, unshapely). (various references)

Ukrainian

спотворений (anamorphous, awry, cam, deformed, misshapen, putrid, strained, truncated), перекручений (anamorphous, barbarous, corrupt, drawn, mutilate, perverted, retorted, warped, wry), деформований (misshapen). (various references)

Welsh

gwyrdroe%dig (perverted). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "distorted": undistorted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Distorted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desaturated, disaturated, disorted, distorced, distored. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: distort, dittoed, dotiest, dotters, dottier, editors, sortied, steroid, storied, toddies, triodes.

-3 letters: didoes, diodes, direst, dittos, doited, dories, doters, dotier, dotted, dotter, driest, droids, droits, editor, oddest, otters, rioted, rotted, rottes, sitter, sordid, sorted, sortie, sotted, stored, stride, strode, titers, titres, todies, toited, tories, tortes, toters, triode, triose, triste.

-4 letters: deist, didos, didst.

+2 letters: outstridden, undistorted.

+4 letters: disorientated.