Synonyms for distort

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dih-stawrt

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈstɔrt

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Définition of distort

Origin : 1580s, from Latin distortus, past participle of distorquere "to twist different ways, distort," from dis- "completely" + torquere "to twist" (see thwart). Related: Distorted; distorting.

verb deform; falsify

Example sentences :

He will not steal it, nor distort it with his supernatural chisels, nor make fun of it.
Extract from : « Death of a Spaceman » by Walter M. Miller

"Yes, they have done their best to distort it," sighed Mendelssohn.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

The mirage in Mesopotamia does not so much hide as distort the truth.
Extract from : « With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia » by One of its Officer

But fashion and the absence of models cramp and distort his work.
Extract from : « A History of English Literature » by George Saintsbury

If to this we add the idea of the subject, which has consciousness, we distort the event.
Extract from : « The Mind and the Brain » by Alfred Binet

Thinking thus, do you continue to dissemble or to distort the truth?
Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor

But there, they're doing all they can to distort the children's minds.
Extract from : « The Frontier » by Maurice LeBlanc

One of them began to distort his features and turn up his eyes.
Extract from : « Travels in North America, From Modern Writers » by William Bingley

He had got an 'ideal' of her which it was pleasanter to magnify than to distort.
Extract from : « Sandra Belloni, Complete » by George Meredith

If you think it will benefit you to distort my motives, Mackworth, pray do so.
Extract from : « The Big Drum » by Arthur Pinero

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