WARPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does warped mean? 

• WARPED (adjective)
  The adjective WARPED has 1 sense:

1. used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture

  Familiarity information: WARPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WARPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture

Context example:

the floors were warped and cracked

Similar:

crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)

 Context examples 

The newly-created and most accurate 3D map of galaxy reveals that it’s warped and twisted, and even more fascinating.

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and therefore not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles round the corner of the island and up the narrow passage to the haven behind Skeleton Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Age had warped and cracked the boards, so that when I had at last very stealthily crept my way as far as the sliding-panel, I found that I could, without any difficulty, see into the room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The astronomers measured how the light emitted by oxygen and neon gas orbiting each of the quasars' black holes is warped by the gravity of a massive foreground galaxy, which acts as a magnifying lens.

(Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps, NASA)

I saw Mr. Rochester shudder: a singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion; but he only said—Come, be silent, Richard, and never mind her gibberish: don't repeat it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am now in a condition to show, by—HEEP'S—false books, and—HEEP'S—real memoranda, beginning with the partially destroyed pocket-book (which I was unable to comprehend, at the time of its accidental discovery by Mrs. Micawber, on our taking possession of our present abode, in the locker or bin devoted to the reception of the ashes calcined on our domestic hearth), that the weaknesses, the faults, the very virtues, the parental affections, and the sense of honour, of the unhappy Mr. W. have been for years acted on by, and warped to the base purposes of—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The coordinates of 1,339 classical Cepheids marked on a 3D map created a twisted and warped galactic disk of our big home.

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day—as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)