Distort
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈstɔːt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Distort is a verb meaning (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
Meaning
(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
More Meanings
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
- (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.
Example Sentences
Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
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.
Word Forms
- distorts
- distorting
- distorted
Synonyms for distort
Depending on context, synonyms include deform, skew, strain, wring, twist, warp.
Antonyms for distort
Common opposites include untwist.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disfigure, deform, garble, warp, falsify, contort.
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