distort
verb
- alter badly
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈtɔːt/ / /dɪsˈtoɹt/ / /dɪsˈtoːt/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
- Distorted; misshapen.
“Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.”
verb
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
- 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.”
- To become misshapen.
- To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
“In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.”