Distort

Definition: Distort

Distort

Verb

1. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story.

2. Form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted".

3. Twist and press out of shape.

4. Distort; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case".

5. Alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy".

6. Spoil the appearance of; "The vandals disfigured the statue".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "distort" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Distort

Distortion

Verb: distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

Falsehood

Misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon; (misinterpret)

Misinterpretation

Misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble; (falsify); distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring.

Misrepresentation

Verb: misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub; burlesque, parody, travesty.

Ugliness

Render ugly; Adjective: deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish; (injure); soil; (render unclean).

Crosswords: Distort

Do we distort the facts (WE BELONG; performing artist: Pat Benatar)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (reference)

• Gotcha! : how the media distort the news (reference)

• How Lenin and Mao-Tse-Tung Tried to Distort for Their Own Advantage the Political Views Advanced by (reference)

• Is Lying Sometimes the Right Thing for an Honest Person to Do?: How Self-Interest and the Competitive Business World Distort Our Moral Values and wha (reference)

• Public Subsidies and Policy Failures: How Subsidies Distort the Natural Environment, Equity and Trade and How to Reform Them (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Distort (reference)

• Thrilled By Velocity & Distort (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In particular, it shall have the right to order the expulsion of any person who may in any way have attempted to distort the result of the plebiscite by methods of corruption or intimidation. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Shouting may distort your speech. (references)

This causes the cornea to swell and distort vision. (references)

In other disorders of the chemical senses, the system may misread and distort an odor, a taste, or a flavor. (references)

Business

These stockpiles, which often consist of goods which are not marketable because of poor quality, distort data on industrial output. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

There has been sustained effort to repeal laws that impede and distort investment. (references)

Czech Rep

Tax, labor, environment, health and safety, and other laws neither distort nor impede investment. (references)

Belgium

Note: Differences in average annual exchange rates can distort the change in market size between 1999 and 2001. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED KINGDOM

The government opposes export subsidies as a general principle, and UK trade-financing mechanisms do not significantly distort trade. (references)

BOLIVIA

Specifically, companies engaged in regulated activities are forbidden from participating in agreements, contracts, decisions and/or practices whose purpose or effect is to hinder, restrict or distort free competition. (references)

IRELAND

Ireland has been a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since January 1, 1995. The WTO agreement was ratified by the Irish parliament in November 1994. As a member of the EU, however, Ireland participates in a large number of EU regional trade agreements, which may distort trade away from countries with whom Ireland trades purely on an MFN, non-preferential WTO basis. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

It is also assumed that the fiscal benefits granted to business within the zones distort competition with business outside them. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "distort": distort the truth. Additional references.

Albanian

shtrembëroj (bevel, contort, deface, deform, deprave, falsify, mutilate, skew, slant, sophisticate, travesty, warp), shfytyroj (deform, disfigure), ndërroj (cast, change, commute, dress, exchange, malt, proselytize, relay, relieve, remove, transfigure, veer). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قبح (hideousness, nastiness, uglify, ugliness), ‏حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, deviate, diverge, edge, falsify, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, slant, tamper, torture, twist, wrest), ‏صحف, ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

изкривявам (contort, curve, skew, tilt, twist), извращавам (contort, deform, pervert, strain, wrench), изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, falsify, mangle, mutilate, pervert, torture, travesty, turn about, twist). (various references)

Chinese 

歪曲 (misrepresent), 弄歪 , 变形 (Deformation, Distorted, Distorting, metamorphic, metamorphose, Metamorphosed, Metamorphoses, Metamorphosing, metamorphosis, transmogrify, Variant). (various references)

Czech

deformovat (deform, disfigure), zkroutit (contort), zkreslit (color, colour, deface, manipulate, misrepresent, skew), zkomolit (hack about, mutilate), zkřivit (bend, contort), pokřivit, překroutit (falsify, garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, skew, twist, wrench), mrzaèit. (various references)

Danish

at forvanske konkurrencevilkaarene paa faellesmarkedet og derved fremkalde en fordrejning (to distort the conditions of competition in the common market). (various references)

Dutch

de mededingingsvoorwaarden op de gemeenschappelijke markt vervalsen en zodoende een distorsie veroorzaken (to distort the conditions of competition in the common market). (various references)

Farsi 

کج کردن (Bend, Contort, Crook, Deflect, Hook, Incline, Inflect, List, Slant, Strain, Tilt, Top), تحریف کردن (Agonize, Garble, Skew, Slant), ازشکل طبیعی انداختن . (various references)

Finnish

vääristellä (misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, put a false construction on, twist), vääristää (bend, make crooked, pervert, twist), vääntää (prise, turn, twist, wind). (various references)

French

déformer, défigurer (disfigure), trahir, fausser, altérer. (various references)

German

verzerren (blur, contort, skew, to distort, warp), verdrehen (adjust, contort, Crick, juggling, misrepresent, pervert, roll, skew, sprain, to contort, to distort, to misrepresent, to pervert, to sophisticate, to twist, twist, wrench). (various references)

Greek 

στρεβλώνω (twist). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעות (contort, corrupt, falsify, pervert, strain, subvert, twist, warp), לעקוש (pervert), לעקם (bend, contort, curve, flex, twist, warp), ל�"עוות (corrupt, pervert, twist), לסלף (falsify, garble, misrepresent, parody, pervert, skew, twist, wrench, wrest). (various references)

Hungarian

torzít (to caricature, to deform, to disfigure, to distort), forgat (revolve, rotate, span, spin, spun, swivel, to feather, to indorse, to rotate, to spin, to swivel, to turn over, to twirl, turn over, twirl, wield), eltorzít (contort, deface, deform, disfeature, to contort, to disfigure, to distort, to rack). (various references)

Indonesian

mengubah (amend, compose, modify, sway), menggeliat, mengerotkan (twist), membelokkan (deflect, divert, put about). (various references)

Italian

distorcere (be sprained, garble, strain, twist, warp), deformare (deform, defraud, disfigure, get deformed, lose one's shape, strain, twist, warp), travisare (garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, twist), rigirare (turn over, turn round), falsare (counterfeit, forge, misrepresent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

歪める (to bend, to curve, to distort, to warp), 捩じ曲�'る (to distort, to twist), �"き使う (for sure, fussy, i.e., make a big deal out of nothing, move stealthily, slime mold, sneakily, that is, to distort, to force, to strain, to work someone hard). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねじま�'る (to distort, to twist), いがめる (to bend, to curve, to distort, to warp), �"じつける (to distort, to force, to strain), ゆがめる (to bend, to curve, to distort, to warp). (various references)

Korean 

견강부회하십시�". (various references)

Manx

cur ass cummey, cleayney (attract, bank, circumvent, decoy, deviate, dispose, distortion, diversion, divert, draw off, incline, induce, influence, inveigle, list, penchant, persuasion, perversion, predilection, predispose, recede, seduce, stoop, tend, tend as garden, trend, vamp, veer), cassey (change, curl, flick, flounce, involve, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring), cammey (bow, buckling, crank, crank of object, crook, distortion, hook, hook as finger, slope), cammaghey (crook, inflect, pervert, twist). (various references)

Norwegian

forvrenge, fortegne, fordreie. (various references)

Pig Latin

istortday

Portuguese

distorcer (draw, drew, wrest), desfigurar (deface, defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, mar, rub), deformar (contort, deform, draw, drew, mangle, strain, warp), alterar (alter, bartender, change, confound, differ, discompose, distemper, garble, invert, make into, modify, mutate, overset, reconsider, shift, sophisticate, translate, transmute, unsettle, vary). (various references)

Romanian

desfigura (deface, defeature, disfeature, disfigure), denatura (angle, denaturalize, denature, falsify, give false colour to, mangle, misrepresent, palter with, pervert, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, warp, wrest), deforma (contort, deface, deform, disfigure, mangle, mutilate, twist), suci (bend, crook, dislocate, screw, sprain, turn, twist, wield, wring), strâmba (bend, cast, contort, crook, grimace, pucker, twist), stâlci (beat smb. black and blue, belabour, bruise, drub, flog, murder, whack, whip), scãlâmba (deform), scâlcia (deform, twist), rãstãlmãci (misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, pervert, spell backward), falsifica (adulterate, alter, cook, counterfeit, debase, doctor, Duff, fake, falsify, feign, fiddle, forge, fudge, huckster, mystify, sophisticate), escamota (falsify, smuggle), altera (adulterate, alloy, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, deprave, forge, spoil, taint). (various references)

Russian 

искажать (contort, defeature, deprave, distort with, falsify, garble, misrepresent, misstate, mutilate, pervert, skew, strain, vitiate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvrnuti (evert, invert, turn over, twist), izopačiti (garble, pervert, vitiate), izobličiti, iskriviti (bend, contort, curve, spring, turn aside, warp, wry), iskrenuti (turn aside). (various references)

Spanish

distorsionar. (various references)

Swedish

förvränga (fudge, misrepresent, pervert, scramble, skew, twist, wrench). (various references)

Turkish

yamultmak (warp), saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, swerve, veer, veer round, vitiate, warp, wring), burkmak (luxate, Rick, sprain, strain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), biçimini bozmak (deform, disfigure), bükmek (bend, buckle, contort, crook, curl, curl up, curve, double, entwine, entwist, flex, fold, fold down, hook, inflect, intwine, spring, strand, throw, twine, twist, wind up, wrench, wrest, wring), çarpıtmak (angle, color, colour, contort, garble, make awry, make crooked, pervert, skew, slant, strain, torture, twist, warp, wrench, wrest, wring). (various references)

Turkmen 

яoяmak (misconstrue), gyюartmak, зaяюarmak (bend). (various references)

Ukrainian

спотворювати (deface, defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, uglify), перекручувати (bedevil, contort, deform, disguise, garble, kink, misconstrue, mutilate, pervert, sophisticate, torture, travesty, warp, wrest, wring), деформувати (deform). (various references)

Welsh

ystumio (bend, pose), gwyrdroi (pervert). (various references)

depravant, depravat, depravatum, depravatus, intorqueo, pertorqueo, torquens, torquent, torquentes, torqueo, torquere, torqueri, torques, torserat, torta, tortam, tortamque, tortas, tortiones, tortis, torto, tortura, torturi. (various references)

aweorpan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "distort": distorted, distorter, distorters, distorting, distortion, distortional, distortions, distorts. (additional references)

Words containing "distort": undistorted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Distort" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dastor, desmoret, Dictory, dietro, dirtot, discort, Disto, distout, distri, distro, distrot, distur, ditor, Dittborn, dustor, Eishort, Idsworth. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dittos, droits.

-2 letters: dirts, ditto, doits, droit, odist, riots, rotis, tiros, toits, torsi, torts, trios, trois, trots.

-3 letters: dirt, dits, doit, dors, dost, dots, orts, rids, riot, rods, roti, rots, sord, sori, sort, stir, tiro, tits, tods, toit, tori, tors, tort, tost, tots, trio, trod, trot.

-4 letters: dis, dit, dor, dos, dot, ids, its.

+1 letter: distorts, ridottos.

+2 letters: adroitest, dictators, distorted, distorter, outstride, tetroxids, torridest.

+3 letters: detritions, distorters, distorting, distortion, drouthiest, fortitudes, meditators, mistutored, outstrides, podiatrist, retrodicts, tetroxides, threnodist, tortricids, traditions, traditores.

+4 letters: constricted, contradicts, destruction, detractions, disportment, dissertator, distortions, distraction, distributor, droughtiest, hydrostatic, ketosteroid, orthopedist, outsprinted, outstridden, outstriding, outstripped, peridotites, podiatrists, proglottids, prostituted, rotundities, tetraploids, threnodists, thyroiditis, torpidities, torridities, undistorted.

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