distort

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   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.

2. 2
   verb

   To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.

   In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

3. 3
   adj

   Distorted; misshapen.

   Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.

4. 4
   verb

   alter the shape of (something) by stress

5. 5
   verb

   make false by mutilation or addition

6. 6
   verb

   affect as in thought or feeling

7. 7
   verb

   form into a spiral shape

8. 8
   verb

   twist and press out of shape

Etymology

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