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distort
UK /dɪˈstɔːt/ US /dɪˈstoɹt/
verb 3adj 1
Collocations
4(verb.)
ADV
grossly, seriously, severely
The newspaper seriously distorted what happened at the meeting yesterday.
completely | slightly | deliberately
Definitions
verb
1
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.
2
To become misshapen.
3
To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
adj
1
Distorted; misshapen.
Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
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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
Wiktionary02
In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Wiktionary03
Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
Wiktionary04
A true scientist would not distort facts.
Tatoeba · #26956305
The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
Tatoeba · #39769006
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Tatoeba · #667911Usage Notes
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