Dictionary

distort en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɪsˈtɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɪsˈtoɹt/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɪsˈtoːt/ (Australia)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪsˈtoːt/ (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.
   • Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:

Forms

distort en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɪsˈtɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /dɪsˈtoɹt/ (Canada, General-American)
• /dɪsˈtoːt/ (Australia)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪsˈtoːt/ (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) 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. 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:
2. (ergative, intransitive) To become misshapen.
3. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
   • In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

Forms

Deriveds

distortive · undistort · distorter · distortable

Relateds

distortion · distorted

Synonyms

deform (to bring something out of shape) · skew

Translations (115)

cmn 歪曲 (to bring something out of shape) · ga cuir as a chuma (to bring something out of shape) · el παραμορφώνω (to bring something out of shape) · no forvrenge (to bring something out of shape) · mi whakahawe (to bring something out of shape) · no forvrenge (to give false account of) · ru извраща́ть (to give false account of) · hu meghamisít (to give false account of) · uk спотворити (to give false account of) · mi whakariroi (to bring something out of shape) · ru искажа́ть (to bring something out of shape) · ga fiar (to bring something out of shape) · ang unwlitigian (to bring something out of shape) · ga athchum (to bring something out of shape) · gl terxiversar (to give false account of) · gl distorcer (to give false account of) · es tergiversar (to give false account of) · eo distordi (to bring something out of shape) · no fordreie (to bring something out of shape) · uk спотворювати (to give false account of) · de verzerren (to bring something out of shape) · gl desvirtuar (to give false account of) · hu eltorzít (to give false account of) · ru искажа́ть (to give false account of) · hu torzít (to give false account of) · hu eltorzul (to become misshapen) · ru искази́ть (to bring something out of shape) · ca deformar (to bring something out of shape) · mi kōrori (to bring something out of shape) · bg деформирам (to bring something out of shape) · th บิดเบือน (to bring something out of shape) · ga cam (to bring something out of shape) · km ធ្វើអោយខុសពីភាពដើម (to bring something out of shape) · fr déformer (to give false account of) · es deformar (to bring something out of shape) · ang āwemman (to bring something out of shape) · km បង្ខូចទ្រង់ទ្រាយ (to give false account of) · mi whakarori (to bring something out of shape) · uk викривляти (to give false account of) · nl vervormen (to bring something out of shape) · ja 歪める (to bring something out of shape) · pl zniekształcić (to bring something out of shape) · fr distordre (to bring something out of shape) · pt deformar (to bring something out of shape) · it deformare (to bring something out of shape) · hu eltorzít (to bring something out of shape) · gl deformar (to become misshapen) · es distorsionar (to give false account of) · pl przesterować (to bring something out of shape) · sv förvränga (to bring something out of shape) · az təhrif etmək (to give false account of) · ru искази́ть (to give false account of) · es deformar (to become misshapen) · ml വളച്ചൊടിക്കുക (to give false account of) · pt distorcer (to bring something out of shape) · ja 歪める (to give false account of) · nl vervalsen (to give false account of) · ru изгиба́ть (to bring something out of shape) · fi vääristää (to give false account of) · wa kitoide (to bring something out of shape) · mi whakaparori (to bring something out of shape) · fi vääristellä (to give false account of) · pl przesterowywać (to bring something out of shape) · hu torzít (to bring something out of shape) · gl distorsionar (to bring something out of shape) · pt distorcer (to give false account of) · it distorcere (to give false account of) · de verzerren (to give false account of) · la distorqueō (to bring something out of shape) · ru изврати́ть (to give false account of) · ga cuir as a ríocht (to give false account of) · th บิดเบือน (to give false account of) · ang atolian (to bring something out of shape) · ga cuir casadh i (to give false account of) · es distorsionar (to bring something out of shape) · el διαστρεβλώνω (to give false account of) · mi aweke (to give false account of) · fi vääntää (to bring something out of shape) · ru искривля́ть (to bring something out of shape) · gl distorcer (to bring something out of shape) · pl wypaczać (to give false account of) · mi pakoki (to become misshapen) · gl deformar (to bring something out of shape) · fr déformer (to bring something out of shape) · hu elferdít (to give false account of) · ru изогну́ть (to bring something out of shape) · mi kōrorirori (to bring something out of shape) · ca distorsionar (to give false account of) · fi vääntyä (to become misshapen) · ga cuir cor i (to give false account of) · ca tergiversar (to give false account of) · da forvrænge (to give false account of) · uk викривити (to give false account of) · ang tōwrīþan (to bring something out of shape) · bg изопачавам (to give false account of) · mi whakariro (to give false account of) · ja 曲げる (to bring something out of shape) · eo misprezenti (to give false account of) · da forvrænge (to bring something out of shape) · hu csúsztat (to give false account of) · hu torzul (to become misshapen) · gl distorsionar (to give false account of) · el διαστρεβλώνω (to bring something out of shape) · sv förvränga (to give false account of) · nl verdraaien (to give false account of) · el διαστρέφω (to bring something out of shape) · eo tordi (to bring something out of shape) · es desvirtuar (to give false account of) · fi vääristää (to bring something out of shape) · bg изкривявам (to bring something out of shape) · pl zniekształcać (to bring something out of shape) · ru искриви́ть (to bring something out of shape) · sv vränga (to give false account of) · fi vääristyä (to become misshapen) · ar شَوَّهَ (to bring something out of shape)