| 单词 | deform |
| 释义 | de·form I. archaic II. transitive verb 1. < deform the groove walls of a phonograph record > 2. < a face deformed by hatred and bitterness > : mar the excellence or perfection of < the minor characters are … deformed by conditions beyond their power to change — Malcolm Cowley > : make offensive < deformed by marriage, irritable, acerb — George Meredith > 3. a. obsolete b. c. intransitive verb < certain metals will deform permanently without breaking > Synonyms: < basaltic and granitic rocks are seen deformed side by side in deeply eroded parts of the earth's surface — W.H.Bucher > < he was really hideous, positively deformed with malice — Christopher Isherwood > < a dread that it should cramp and deform the free operations of his own mind — T.S.Eliot > distort strongly implies a twisting or wrenching away from or out of the natural, regular, or true or, in application to intangibles, an imbalance or lack of reasonable proportion < under such a light the features of the subject are sometimes distorted, as in a passport photograph — Hallett Smith > < news was distorted in his favor — S.H.Adams > < distorting facts to suit theories — R.A.Hall b. 1911 > contort implies a more involved or intense twisting together or upon itself, suggesting a grotesque or painful result < the boy whose face was contorted with fury and frustration — Jean Stafford > < contorted thickets of lodgepole pine — American Guide Series: Oregon > < their shadows contorted themselves grotesquely — Israel Zangwill > warp is literally a twisting or bending out of a flat plane and figuratively a twisting or wrenching that gives bias, false significance, or abnormal direction < boards warped by exposure to the sun and rain > < their lives and minds have been warped, twisted and soured — John Lardner > < it degrades the individual and warps the nation's moral fabric > gnarl implies, in literal use, the twistings and contortions, knots and protuberances of the roots or branches of an old tree; in extended use it suggests a condition similar to this as in the hands or limbs of the very old, the arthritic, or those who have long done heavy physical work, especially exposed to all weathers < in the old orchard the trees are gnarled, and broken — Corey Ford > < he was slight, dark, gnarled, with a face on him like a knotty piece of old mahogany — Alan Villiers > < the battlefields, gnarled by trenches, barbed-wire entanglements, shell holes — H.S.Commager > |
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