Distort and Influence

Distort

Distort verb - To change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of.

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Influence and distort are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Influence" instead a verb "Distort".

Nearby Words: distortion, distorting, distorter

Influence verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

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Distort and influence are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distort" instead a verb "Influence".

mind	distort mind	influence mind
characters	distort characters	influence characters
world	distort world	influence world
story	distort story	influence story
Other words: music, actions, magic, reality, feelings, chances, beings, perceptions.

None of the vessels could with stand Ragnarok's influence and all of them perished only for the seals to choose new hosts.This caused Much of Ragnarok's influence to warp and distort the Ark and to create its own world to mirror the Ark, The Realm of Chaos.

Source: Roleplay / Ragnarok's Ark
Bob Drake's "The Persecuting Engine" deals with a protagonist that falls victim to "The Thing" which uses the aforementioned Engine "which, from afar / can influence your actions as we wish, distort your perceptions into indecipherable alien ones, [and] replace your will with ours" on him.

Source: Puppeteer Parasite

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