distorts

Verb

distort (third-person singular simple present distorts, present participle distorting, simple past and past participle distorted)

1. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
   • 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.1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

   Synonyms:

   deform

2. (ergative, intransitive) To become misshapen.
3. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
   • In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

   Synonyms:

   skew

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