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Distort

//dɪˈstɔːt// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Distorted; misshapen. obsolete

    "Her face was ugly and her mouth distort."

Verb
  1. 1
    To bring something out of shape, to misshape. transitive

    "This she did with the utmost politeness, though cold by race, and through her politeness ran a sense of what the Teutons call Duty, which would once have repelled me; but I have wandered over a great part of the world and I know it now to be a distorted kind of virtue."

  2. 2
    alter the shape of (something) by stress wordnet
  3. 3
    To become misshapen. ergative, intransitive
  4. 4
    make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story wordnet
  5. 5
    To give a false or misleading account of; pervert. transitive

    "In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth."

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  1. 6
    affect as in thought or feeling wordnet
  2. 7
    form into a spiral shape wordnet
  3. 8
    twist and press out of shape wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).

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