WordNet
n. a shape resulting from distortion [syn: distortion]
Usage examples of "distorted shape".
But behind the familiar image, the startled C'tair saw a strange and distorted shape, a gross, startling shadow of his brother with an enlarged cranium and stunted limbs, suspended forever in a tank of rich melange gas.
His axe was a shimmering blur as it sheared through a distorted shape that screeched in agony and despair and then vanished.
He strode to stand over the wizard, shadowing him like a blighted tree, the single lamp flinging the great distorted shape of him to blend with the crowding dimness of the room.
It was a toadstool, a Trojan Horse fungus, which had grown into a distorted shape that would attract rather than repel larger, hungry predators.
Every distorted shape, every smear of color, every swath of light and shudder of shadows resisted her attempts to relate them to the world she knew, as if shimmering before her were the landscape of a dream.
His distorted shape moved under that frosted surface, like a strange pale something glimpsed swimming just beneath the shadow-dappled surface of a pond.
He found it not far beneath the surface of the skin, picked it out with his forceps, and marvelled at its flattened and distorted shape.
The crampons on my right foot had caught in the gaiters of the good leg, so twisting my knee back in a familiar distorted shape.
From the distorted shape of Grandfather's corpse, he could see that the old man had still retained the ability to change into a Bear.
A pale distorted shape was creeping about the room, slithering over the shabby furniture.
Sarah stared through the panel, and caught a glimpse of a massive, distorted shape moving hurriedly away.