Hypertext Webster Gateway: "distorted"
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) 1.7 (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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