Crossword clues for distorting
distorting
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.
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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.
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To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.
Wiktionary
That distorts. v
(present participle of distort English)
Usage examples of "distorting".
Jaxom's respect for the girl increased greatly as he listened to her flowing voice evoke the emotions appropriate to each part of her narrative, without distorting what he knew to have happened.
I concede that it is a distorting mirror we use in science fiction and fantasy.
The peculiar virtue of a distorting mirror is its ability to lay special emphasis upon those features of consensus reality which the writer wishes to accent-a thing which in many ways places what we do close to satire, in the classical sense-making the science fiction and fantasy worlds special ways of talking about the present world.
Thus, the world about which I write, the world to which I hold up my distorting mirror, is not the real world in any ultimate sense.
She fell into the line of fire, and his shot hit her under the left arm as she toppled, the full-metal jacket tumbling and distorting, ripping through the ribs and chest cavity, angling upward and bursting out through the top of her left shoulder.
In fact, the tiny, injured bat that had provided its last meal had upset it, given it a tearing illness that raced through its body, making breathing difficult, distorting its sight so that it missed three separate kills of deer within the hour, that very morning, before the storm had hit.
The bullet was rolling and distorting, causing terminal damage before it exited through the top of her head, shattering a chunk of the skull.
Its jaw line was distorting, its mouth growing wider to envelop Dogface's head.
She realized that the image of the galleon was so intense that it was distorting the fabric of the datascape, dragging everything into its own reality.
There was something else about them she hadn't noticed in previous telepathic contacts -- an odd, filtered quality as though his thoughts passed through a distorting medium before reaching her.
They'd proved to be expert portal technicians who'd sealed off sizable circuit areas by distorting portal patterns and substituting their own.
The world now came to Mitch's five senses through a distorting lens of extreme anxiety.