Distorted and Tortured

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Distorted adjective - Badly or imperfectly formed.

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Tortured and distorted are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tortured" instead an adjective "Distorted".

Nearby Words: distortion, distorting, distorter

Tortured adjective - Experiencing intense pain especially mental pain.

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Distorted and tortured are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Distorted" instead an adjective "Tortured".

Nearby Words: torture, torturous, torturing, torturer

Gail Simone, who coined the phrase (and has stated that the term has been distorted and over-applied since then) played with the trope in Wonder Woman, where Wonder Woman's best friend Etta was captured and tortured into catatonia by Genocide.

Source: Stuffed into the Fridge
Canadian indie rock band Wintersleep has several epic songs: "Motion" on the Wintersleep album, which begins with a single acoustic guitar chord being strummed once per bar, and ends with distorted guitars colliding with a 35mm film synchronizer being tortured.

Source: Epic Rocking

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