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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
