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| English Dictionary: distort |
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| 3 results for distort |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- distort
- v
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or
story
Synonym(s): falsify, distort, garble, warp
- form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"
Synonym(s): twist, twine, distort
Antonym(s): untwist
- twist and press out of shape
Synonym(s): contort, deform, distort, wring
- affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
Synonym(s): tinge, color, colour, distort
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
Synonym(s): deform, distort, strain
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distorted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Distorting}.]
1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside
physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray.
2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to
twist aside mentally or morally.
Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and
distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson.
3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort
passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Distort \Dis*tort"\, a. [L. distortus, p. p. of distorquere to
twist, distort; dis- + torquere to twist. See {Torsion}.]
Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.]
Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. --Spenser.
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