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detort

detort verb: to turn from the original or plain meaning.

Verb

detort (third-person singular simple present detorts, present participle detorting, simple past and past participle detorted)

  1. (dated) to turn from the original or plain meaning.
    Synonyms:
    distort, skew
  2. (dated) to pervert
  3. (dated) to wrest
    Synonyms:
    contort, twist

detort meaning in Urdu and Bengali

detort in Urdu

بگاڑنا, مسخ کرنا

detort in Bengali

মূল, সাধারণ অর্থ থেকে সরানো, বিকৃত করা, মোচড়ানো

Synonyms of detort

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Forms of detort

third-person singular presentdetorts
present participledetorting
past participledetorted
pastdetorted

Origin of detort

From Latin detorqueo.

Words that rhyme with detort

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Questions about detort

What does detort mean?
Detort means to turn from the original or plain meaning.
What is detort in Urdu?
Detort in Urdu is بگاڑنا, مسخ کرنا. See Detort meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is detort?
Detort is a verb.
What is the past tense of detort?
The past tense of detort is detorted.

Words near detort in the dictionary

  1. detorsed
  2. detorses
  3. detorsing
  4. detorsion
  5. detorsions
  6. detort
  7. detorted
  8. detorting
  9. detortion
  10. detortions
  11. detorts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detort (page history and authors); detort (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); detort (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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