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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024dis•tort /dɪˈstɔrt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- to twist out of shape:Pain had distorted his face.
- to give a false meaning to;
misrepresent:That journalist distorted the candidate's remarks. - Electronicsto reproduce or amplify (an electronic signal) inaccurately:His voice over the loudspeaker was distorted.
See -tort-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024dis•tort (di stôrt′),USA pronunciation v.t. - to twist awry or out of shape;
make crooked or deformed:Arthritis had distorted his fingers. - to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to;
misrepresent:to distort the facts. - Electronicsto reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave.
- Latin distortus (past participle of distorquēre to distort), equivalent. to dis- dis-1 + tor(qu)- (stem of torquēre to twist) + -tus past participle suffix
- 1580–90
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged pervert, misconstrue, twist, falsify, misstate. See misrepresent.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: distort /dɪˈstɔːt/ vb (transitive)- (often passive) to twist or pull out of shape; make bent or misshapen; contort; deform
- to alter or misrepresent (facts, motives, etc)
- to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately, changing the shape of the waveform
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin distortus misshapen, from distorquēre to turn different ways, from dis-1 + torquēre to twistdisˈtorted adj |