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Distortable
- adjective - capable of having the meaning altered or twisted; "our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature"
Distortions
- 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
Distractile
- - Tending or serving to draw apart.
Distracting
- 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"
Distraction
- noun - an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations
- an obstacle to attention
- mental turmoil; "he drives me to distraction"
- the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something; "conjurers are experts at misdirection"
Distractive
- - Causing perplexity; distracting.
Distractors
- unknown - People who distract
Distraining
- verb - confiscate by distress
- legally take something in place of a debt payment
- levy a distress on
Distressful
- adjective - causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"