What does distort mean?
Distort means (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape..
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/dɪˈstɔːt/ · verb
(transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape..
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.
In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
Use distort when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Distort means (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape..
Common synonyms include deform, skew, strain, wring.
Possible antonyms include untwist.
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.
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