Crossword clues for distorted
distorted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distorting.]
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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. -
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. -
To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: distort)
WordNet
adj. 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]
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]
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]
Wikipedia
Distorted is a progressive death/doom metal band from Bat-Yam, Israel.
Distorted is the first demo album by British metal band Biomechanical, released in 2001. All four songs on the demo would appear on the band's first studio album, Eight Moons.
Distorted is a progressive deathdoom metal band from Bat-Yam in Israel.
Distorted may also refer to:
- Beatmania IIDX 13: Distorted, an arcade game
- Distorted (album), a 2001 album by Biomechanical
- Distorted (EP), an EP by Distorted
- Distorted Music Festival, a yearly electronic music festival
Distorted is the self-titled first EP released by Israeli oriental death/doom band Distorted in September 2001. Most tracks on the EP were later re-recorded for the band's debut full-length album.
Usage examples of "distorted".
His face, with the distorted, swollen features of an acromegalic, turned incuriously to look in their direction.
Placing the ampule back over the burner, the glass became soft again, but as he tried to rotate it, the molten glass distorted more, and he only succeeded in burning himself and making a mess of the whole end of the ampule.
Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?
After that, they become atretic, or scarred and distorted from repeated ovulations.
The sliding panels had been either cut away or hammered back in their distorted grooves, where they had rusted fast, and now the openings were screened with panels of basketwork or animal-hides draped like curtains.
Then the distorted Effigy shot up into the blueshifted sky and arced down over the edge of the cliff, hurling itself after the misty water into the flickering crimson of the plain below.
It removed the mask and smiled, its human lips stretching wide as chelicera and pedipalpi extended and distorted the lower half of its face.
Moreover, the effects were diffused over many messages, commingled with other sources of information, distorted by Nazi preconceptions, so that it was virtually impossible to single out cryptanalyzed information as critical in a specific event.
Contacting the deeper meaning is a liberation from the false and distorted surface meaning, and this liberation is experienced as type of freedom from a prior suffering or constraint.
And to have the picture of our impression complete, you must bear in mind that we saw it all through a thick bent glass, distorting it as things are distorted by a lens, acute only in the centre of the picture, and very bright there, and towards the edges magnified and unreal.
It was an insanely complicated problem, because he had to take into account a quantum twitch in Einsteinian time contraction as the black hole collapsed into existence from a somewhat larger mass, and because the relativistic speed at which the hole was traveling distorted space itself, making a sort of furrow along an Einsteinian geodesic.
A decade later, he changed the history of the art world with the birth of Fauvism exuberant colors and wildly distorted shapes.
Descendants: and all nations preserved the remembrance of that division of the human family into the righteous and impious, in their distorted legends of the wars between the Gods, and the Giants and Titans.
For the Hinayanist, important delusions remain unchallenged, development is arrested, and they stagnate with a distorted perspective of the world.
More crowded in at the door, black-mailed shapes with human faces distorted with muzzles and beaks and horns, oddly curved swords stabbing at Tam as he tried to struggle to his feet, spiked axes swinging, red blood on steel.