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Distorting
- verb -
- affect as in thought or feeling;
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- twist and press out of shape
Distortion
- noun - a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"
- a change for the worse
- a shape resulting from distortion
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
Distracted
- verb - disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- draw someone's attention away from something; "The thief distracted the bystanders"; "He deflected his competitors"
- having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
Distracter
- - One who, or that which, distracts away.
Distrained
- verb - confiscate by distress
- legally take something in place of a debt payment
- levy a distress on
Distrainor
- - One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
Distraints
- noun - the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien"
Distraught
- adjective - deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with grief"
- Extremely distressed or agitated