distort
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distort
- /dɪsˈtɔːt/ UK
- /dɪsˈtoɹt/ Canada, US
- /dɪsˈtoːt/ Australia
- /dɪsˈtoːt/ New Zealand
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)t
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
verb distorts · distorting · distorted
- 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.
adjective more distort · most distort
- Distorted; misshapen. Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.
