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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb distort has 5 senses

• distort(v = verb.communication) falsify, garble, warp - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story;
is one way to belie, misrepresent
Derived forms noun distortion₆, noun distortion₅, noun distortion₄
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• distort(v = verb.contact) twine, twist - form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"
is one way to change form, change shape, deform
Derived form noun distortion₂
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

• distort(v = verb.contact) contort, deform, wring - twist and press out of shape;
is one way to distort, twine, twist
Derived form noun distortion₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• distort(v = verb.communication) color, colour, tinge - affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
is one way to affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something

• distort(v = verb.change) deform, strain - alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
is one way to form, shape
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

distort

adulterate, alloy, alter, argue insincerely, belie, bend, bias, blemish, blur, buckle, burlesque, camouflage, canker, caricature, change, cheapen, check, cicatrize, coarsen, color, confound, confuse, contaminate, contort, corrupt, crack, craze, crook, crumple, curve, debase, debauch, deface, defile, deflect, deflower, deform, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, deviate, diffract, diffuse, disfigure, disguise, disorder, disperse, diverge, divert, dogleg, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, flaw, fog up, fudge, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gild, gloss, gloss over, gnarl, hairpin, infect, influence, jaundice, jumble, kink, knot, mar, mask, mess up, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, miscolor, misconceive, misconstrue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misshape, misstate, mistake, misteach, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, muddle, obfuscate, obscure, overdraw, overstate, paralogize, parody, pervert, poison, pollute, prejudice, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, prepossess, prostitute, pull, rationalize, ravage, ravish, reason ill, refract, scab, scar, scarify, scatter, screw, skew, slant, split, spring, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, sway, taint, tamper with, titivate, torture, travesty, trick out, turn, turn awry, twist, twist the words, ulcerate, understate, unform, unshape, varnish, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, whitewash, wind, wrench, wrest, wring, writhe, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

distort

Ugliness

VB be ugly, look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces, render ugly, deface, disfigure, defigure, distort, blemish, soil.

Distortion

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

Misinterpretation

VB misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell, mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply, mistake, misrepresent, pervert, explain wrongly, misstate, garble, 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, be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.

Falsehood

VB be false, be a liar, speak falsely, tell a lie, lie, fib, lie like a trooper, swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness, misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent, belie, falsify, pervert, distort, put a false construction upon (misinterpret), prevaricate, equivocate, quibble, palter, palter to the understanding, repondre en Normand, trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose, garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to, give a gloss, put a gloss, put false coloring upon, color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider, varnish right and puzzle wrong, exaggerate, blague, invent, fabricate, trump up, get up, force, fake, hatch, concoct, romance, cry 'wolf!', dissemble, dissimulate, feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe, play possum, play false, play a double game, coquet, act a part, play a part, affect, simulate, pass off for, counterfeit, sham, make a show of, malinger, say the grapes are sour, cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror, hand out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors, commend the poisoned chalice to the lips, ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces, deceive.

Misrepresentation

VB misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub, burlesque, parody, travesty.

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