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  • The funhouse mirror distorted her reflection, making her head look huge.
    distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
  • Also, you'll find out soon enough that John distorts--when he isn't out-and-out lying.  (source)
    distorts = alters the truth
  • I looked out of the window, saw Askew far out there, heading away, distorted by the water on the pane.  (source)
    distorted = altered in an unnatural way
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  • My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years.  (source)
    distorted = altered in an untrue way
  • The split-second jump cut in the feed would be masked by the momentary video distortion that occurred when the cameras switched into night-vision mode.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • 8TH JUROR: He said fifteen. 3RD JUROR: Now I'm telling you he said twenty. What're you trying to distort . . .  (source)
    distort = to alter something in an untrue way
  • She drove to the birth in dark glasses, trying to peer through the waves distorting her vision.†  (source)
  • But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias.†  (source)
  • The rounded lid of the compact distorts my features a little, but it's still me.†  (source)
  • But in the shopwindow, she has caught herself off guard, vulnerable to reality undistorted by self-delusion.†  (source)
    undistorted = not altered in an unnatural or untrue way
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undistorted means not and reverses the meaning of distorted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • CONE OF SILENCE: the field of a distorter that limits the carrying power of the voice or any other vibrator by damping the vibrations with an image-vibration 180 degrees out of phase.†  (source)
  • He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his honest and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the pendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room distortedly reflect—a shade of horror.†  (source)
  • Her face was horribly distorted, her lips blue.  (source)
    distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
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