- contorted, distorted, twisted - strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders"
Antonym: straight (indirect, via crooked)
- deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen - 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"
Antonym: shapely (indirect, via unshapely)
- distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted - 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"
Antonyms: ingenuous, artless (indirect, via disingenuous)
- falsify, distort, garble, warp - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
--1 is one way to misrepresent, belie
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun distortion4, noun distortion6, noun distortion5
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- twist, twine, distort - form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"
--2 is one way to change shape, change form, deform
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun distortion2
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Somebody ----s somebody
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- contort, deform, distort, wring - twist and press out of shape
--3 is one way to twist, twine, distort
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun distortion2
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- tinge, color, colour, distort - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
--4 is one way to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- deform, distort, strain - alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
--5 is one way to shape, form
Sample sentences:
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