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distorted
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adjective
(= misrepresented, perverted, twisted)
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
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adjective
(= deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen)
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
dialing
noun
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The act by which a number is dialed.
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(archaic) The art of constructing dials; the science of measuring time by dials.
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A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor; the use of a miner's dial.