| 单词 | distort |
| 释义 | distort —distorter, n. —distortive, adj. /di stawrt"/, v.t. 1. to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers. 2. to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts. 3. Electronics. to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave. [1580-90; < L distortus (ptp. of distorquere to distort), equiv. to dis- DIS-1 + tor(qu)- (s. of torquere to twist) + -tus ptp. suffix] Syn. 2. pervert, misconstrue, twist, falsify, misstate. See misrepresent. |
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