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"
{s} deformed, twisted out of its normal shape or appearance; falsified, misrepresented
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
strained or wrenched out of normal shape; "old trees with contorted branches"; "scorched and distorted fragments of steel"; "trapped under twisted steel girders"
If you distort a statement, fact, or idea, you report or represent it in an untrue way. The media distorts reality; categorises people as all good or all bad + distorted dis·tort·ed These figures give a distorted view of the significance for the local economy
If something you can see or hear is distorted or distorts, its appearance or sound is changed so that it seems unclear. A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms This caused the sound to distort. + distorted dis·tort·ed Sound was becoming more and more distorted through the use of hearing aids