verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distorted/misleading picture (= one that is not accurate )
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The media coverage left many people with a distorted picture.
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These figures give a misleading picture of the company’s financial health.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
often
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Isolated and often distorted in size, objects are fetishised and appear surreal.
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But the attacks often distort the true nature of a candidate.
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It may be very colloquial and the voices are often distorted .
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Gone, in the heat of a passion as debilitating as the panic that so often distorts the actions of accused politicians.
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Crime rates often distort more than they clarify.
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It does not necessarily call for an ethical content, so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest.
seriously
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Too much emotion has been bottled up for too long and in some firms the performance-reward link is seriously distorted .
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This is a seriously distorted impression.
■ NOUN
face
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The candles fluttered light on to the silver, which threw off distorted images of the faces round the table.
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The fierce, distorted blind face of the creature appeared at ground level, on its side, searching.
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It not only distorts the face but gives the impression of anger or impatience.
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Some of them have really distorted faces .
fact
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Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room: repeating rumours, distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up.
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The Department of the Environment immediately issued a furious press release accusing the Chron of distorting the facts .
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Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead?
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Obesity researchers' thinking is distorted most by the fact that almost everyone who funds their work is in the diet business.
market
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From that it follows that any tax, because it distorts the market , must be bad.
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They supply most of the pubs and they distort the market as a result of their sheer size and advertising wealth.
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None of this is likely to change the dynamics of stadium-bidding, as long as the sports-league cartels distort the market .
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If these taxes increase the price of all products in proportion to their original price, they distort market preferences relatively little. 2.
relationship
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The denial mechanisms will distort relationships and dealings with the client, and warp our perceptions of the whole situation.
truth
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Perceptions, such as hers, distort the truth and confuse the issue.
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Champions of the vanquished classes, at home and abroad, would inevitably seek to distort the truth .
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Hutcheson over-simplified and distorted the truth by treating benevolence as the one moral desideratum.
■ VERB
become
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A natural and innocent experience like weeping becomes sullied and distorted .
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The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.
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The protein becomes distorted and loses its function.
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It takes imagination to understand what is needed when sounds become muffled, distorted , unclear or even non-existent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Funhouse mirrors, which are not flat, cause images to be distorted.
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Journalists were accused of sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts.
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Newspaper readers are usually given a simplified and often distorted version of events.
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Some say that the President has distorted facts in order to win the election.
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These incidents were grossly distorted by police witnesses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A frequent tactic is to try to distort the meaning of words.
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But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface, which distorts the analysis.
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But we can not assume that humans would naturally or inevitably develop such distorted ideas.
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For example, the beat can be distorted if the coronary arteries are not wired correctly inside the heart.
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If the sine wave is distorted, harmonics are generated.
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Nevertheless, to conceive of parents as utterly static in the child's psychological life is likely to distort the picture grossly.
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The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.