distort
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɪˈstɔɹt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈstɔːt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Verb
distort (third-person singular simple present distorts, present participle distorting, simple past and past participle distorted)
- (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
- 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.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of
- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Synonyms
- (to bring something out of shape): deform
Derived terms
Related terms
- distorted (adjective)
- distortion
Translations
to bring something out of shape
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to become misshapen
to give false account of
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Adjective
distort (comparative more distort, superlative most distort)
- (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:
- Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
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