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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Pronunciation
Verb
distort (third-person singular simple present distorts, present participle distorting, simple past and past participle distorted)
- (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome: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.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
- (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of
- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Synonyms
- (to bring something out of shape): deform
Derived terms
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Translations
to bring something out of shape
- Arabic: يشوّه (yoshawweh)
- Bulgarian: изкривявам (bg) (izkrivjavam), деформирам (bg) (deformiram)
- Catalan: deformar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 歪曲 (zh) (wāiqū)
- Danish: forvrænge
- Dutch: vervormen (nl)
- Esperanto: tordi, distordi
- Finnish: vääristää (fi), vääntää (fi)
- French: déformer (fr), distordre (fr)
- Galician: deformar (gl), distorsionar, distorcer
- German: verzerren (de)
- Greek: παραμορφώνω (el) (paramorfóno), διαστρεβλώνω (el) (diastrevlóno), διαστρέφω (el) (diastréfo)
- Hungarian: torzít (hu), eltorzít (hu)
- Irish: cuir as a chuma, athchum, cam, fiar
- Italian: deformare (it)
- Japanese: 歪める (ja) (ゆがめる, yugameru), 曲げる (ja) (まげる, mageru)
- Khmer: ធ្វើអោយខុសពីភាពដើម (thvəəʼaoykhohpiiphiəpdaəm)
- Latin: distorqueō
- Maori: kōrori, kōrorirori, whakariroi, whakarori, whakahawe, whakaparori, whakariroi
- Norwegian: forvrenge, fordreie
- Old English: tōwrīþan, atolian, unwlitigian, āwemman
- Polish: zniekształcać (pl) impf (of objects), zniekształcić (pl) pf (of objects), przesterowywać impf (of sounds), przesterować pf (of sounds)
- Portuguese: distorcer (pt), deformar (pt)
- Russian: искажа́ть (ru) impf (iskažátʹ), искази́ть (ru) pf (iskazítʹ); искривля́ть (ru) impf (iskrivljátʹ), искриви́ть (ru) pf (iskrivítʹ); изгиба́ть (ru) impf (izgibátʹ), изогну́ть (ru) pf (izognútʹ)
- Spanish: deformar (es), distorsionar (es)
- Swedish: förvränga (sv)
- Walloon: kitoide (wa)
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to give false account of
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: təhrif etmək
- Bulgarian: изопачавам (bg) (izopačavam)
- Catalan: tergiversar (ca), distorsionar (ca)
- Danish: forvrænge
- Dutch: verdraaien (nl), vervalsen (nl)
- Esperanto: misprezenti
- Finnish: vääristää (fi), vääristellä (fi)
- French: déformer (fr)
- Galician: terxiversar (gl), distorsionar, distorcer, desvirtuar (gl)
- German: verzerren (de)
- Greek: διαστρεβλώνω (el) (diastrevlóno)
- Hungarian: torzít (hu), csúsztat (hu), eltorzít (hu), elferdít (hu), meghamisít (hu)
- Irish: cuir as a ríocht, cuir cor i, cuir casadh i
- Italian: distorcere (it)
- Japanese: 歪める (ja) (ゆがめる, yugameru)
- Khmer: បង្ខូចទ្រង់ទ្រាយ (bɑɑngkhouctrŭəngtriəy)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: വളച്ചൊടിക്കുക (vaḷaccoṭikkuka)
- Maori: whakariro, aweke
- Norwegian: forvrenge
- Polish: wypaczać (pl)
- Portuguese: distorcer (pt)
- Russian: искажа́ть (ru) impf (iskažátʹ), искази́ть (ru) pf (iskazítʹ); извраща́ть (ru) impf (izvraščátʹ), изврати́ть (ru) pf (izvratítʹ)
- Spanish: tergiversar (es), distorsionar (es), desvirtuar (es)
- Swedish: förvränga (sv)
- Ukrainian: спотворювати impf (spotvorjuvaty), спотворити pf (spotvoryty), викривляти impf (vykryvljaty), викривити pf (vykryvyty)
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Adjective
distort (comparative more distort, superlative most distort)
- (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.