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The synonyms of “Distort” are: contort, deform, wring, twine, twist, falsify, garble, warp, color, colour, tinge, strain, contorted, buckled, disfigured, out of shape, bend, buckle, misshape, disfigure, misrepresented, perverted, misrepresent, pervert, misreport, misstate, prejudice, manipulate, quote out of context, take out of context
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “distort” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| bend | Bend a joint. Sailors were bending sails to the spars. |
| buckle | Fasten with a buckle or buckles. The highway buckled during the heat wave. |
| buckled | Fasten with a buckle or buckles. |
| color | Change color often in an undesired manner. Color a lie. |
| colour | Take on a different colour. The foliage will not colour well if the soil is too rich. |
| contort | Twist and press out of shape. Her face contorted with anger. |
| contorted | Twist and press out of shape. |
| deform | Become distorted or misshapen undergo deformation. He was physically deformed by a rare bone disease. |
| disfigure | Mar or spoil the appearance of. The vandals disfigured the statue. |
| disfigured | Mar or spoil the appearance of. |
| falsify | Falsify knowingly. Changes falsify individual expectations. |
| garble | Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story. The connection was awful and kept garbling his voice. |
| manipulate | Manipulate in a fraudulent manner. Nations may still be able to manipulate their own data. |
| misreport | Give a false or inaccurate account of (something. The press exaggerated and misreported the response to the film. |
| misrepresent | Represent falsely. This statement misrepresents my intentions. |
| misrepresented | Represent falsely. |
| misshape | Shape or form badly or wrongly. A new novel about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. |
| misstate | State something incorrectly. To say that he was alone misstates the case. |
| out of shape | To state openly and publicly one’s homosexuality. |
| pervert | Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something. He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. |
| perverted | Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. |
| prejudice | Disadvantage by prejudice. The statement might prejudice the jury. |
| quote out of context | Put quote marks around. |
| strain | Rub through a strainer or process in an electric blender. On cold days you are more likely to strain a muscle. |
| take out of context | Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract. |
| tinge | Colour slightly. The sadness tinged his life. |
| twine | Wind or cause to wind round something. A spray of jasmine was twined in her hair. |
| twist | Do the twist. The wrestler twisted his shoulder. |
| warp | In weaving arrange yarn so as to form the warp of a piece of cloth. Cotton string will be warped on the loom in the rug weaving process. |
| wring | Break (an animal’s neck) by twisting it forcibly. I ll wring her neck when I lay hands on her. |
| blemish | Add a flaw or blemish to make imperfect or defective. Local government is not without blemish. |
| contort | Twist and press out of shape. Her face contorted with anger. |
| crimp | A small connecting piece for crimping wires or lines together. Crimp hair. |
| damaged | Harmed or injured or spoiled. The storm left a wake of badly damaged buildings. |
| deface | Spoil the surface or appearance of (something), for example by drawing or writing on it. He defaced library books. |
| deform | Become distorted or misshapen undergo deformation. He was physically deformed by a rare bone disease. |
| disfigure | Spoil the appearance of. The vandals disfigured the statue. |
| exaggerate | Do something to an excessive degree. Claims of turmoil within the firm are greatly exaggerated. |
| garble | A garbled account or transmission. Most readers assumed the word was a typographical garble. |
| hyperbole | Extravagant exaggeration. He vowed revenge with oaths and hyperboles. |
| irreversibly | In a way that cannot be undone or altered. Our landscape will be irreversibly damaged. |
| kink | Form a curl curve or kink. A kink in the road. |
| magnify | Make (something) appear larger than it is, especially with a lens or microscope. Praise the Lord and magnify Him. |
| maim | Wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged. 100 000 soldiers were killed or maimed. |
| mangle | Press with a mangle. Mangle the sheets. |
| mar | A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something especially on a person s body. Violence marred a number of New Year celebrations. |
| misrepresent | Tamper, with the purpose of deception. This statement misrepresents my intentions. |
| mutate | (with reference to a cell, DNA molecule, etc.) undergo or cause to undergo change in a gene or genes. The virus is able to mutate into new forms that are immune to the vaccine. |
| mutilate | Inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on. The fine carved screen was mutilated in the 18th century. |
| overblown | Past the stage of full bloom. An overblown rose. |
| overdo | Do, use, or carry to excess; exaggerate. I d simply overdone it in the gym. |
| overstate | To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth. I overstated my case to make my point. |
| overstatement | The action of stating something too strongly; exaggeration. To describe the show as a success would be an overstatement. |
| pervert | A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time. |
| transformed | Given a completely different form or appearance. Shocked to see the transformed landscape. |
| twist | A paper packet with twisted ends. I twisted a strand of hair around my finger. |
| wrench | Turn something especially a nut or bolt with a wrench. Casey grabbed the gun and wrenched it from my hand. |
| wrest | Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically. You appear convinced of my guilt and wrest every reply I have made. |
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