distorted








adjective

  1. not truly or completely representing the facts or reality; misrepresented; false: She has a distorted view of life.
  2. twisted; deformed; misshapen.
  3. mentally or morally twisted, as with an aberration or bias: He has a distorted sense of values.

verb (used with object)

  1. to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
  2. to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts.
  3. Electronics. to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave.

verb (tr)

  1. (often passive) to twist or pull out of shape; make bent or misshapen; contort; deform
  2. to alter or misrepresent (facts, motives, etc)
  3. electronics to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately, changing the shape of the waveform
v.

1580s, from Latin distortus, past participle of distorquere “to twist different ways, distort,” from dis- “completely” + torquere “to twist” (see thwart). Related: Distorted; distorting.

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