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Synonyms for distort
dɪˈstɔrtdis·tort
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Princeton's WordNet
falsify, distort, garble, warpverb
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Synonyms:
warp, buckle, wring, fudge, fake, strain, heave, misrepresent, tinge, twist, manipulate, color, wangle, alter, cook, falsify, interpolate, deform, twine, garble, contort, colourtwist, twine, distortverb
form into a spiral shape
"The cord is all twisted"
Synonyms:
warp, bend, wriggle, intertwine, wrick, wind, deform, wrestle, twist, colour, interlace, rick, color, worm, roll, flex, convolute, writhe, wrench, wrap, turn, entwine, sophisticate, contort, sprain, curve, lace, falsify, twist around, twine, tinge, garble, wring, strain, squirm, pervert, enlacecontort, deform, distort, wringverb
twist and press out of shape
Synonyms:
turn, warp, extort, strain, wring, bend, rack, wrench, color, twist, colour, falsify, squeeze, garble, deform, twine, tinge, contort, flex, change shape, change form, gougetinge, color, colour, distortverb
affect as in thought or feeling
"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
Synonyms:
warp, discolor, touch, strain, wring, twist, deform, tinct, tint, colourise, colourize, colorize, contort, colour, emblazon, garble, color, twine, colour in, tinge, color in, gloss, colorise, falsify, discolourdeform, distort, strainverb
alter the shape of (something) by stress
"His body was deformed by leprosy"
Synonyms:
turn, warp, try, stress, strain, filter out, tense up, reach, wring, bend, tense, extend, color, twist, sift, separate out, filter, colour, falsify, puree, garble, strive, filtrate, deform, twine, tinge, contort, flex, sieve, change shape, change form
Dictionary of English Synonymes
distortverb
distortverb
Synonyms:
pervert, misrepresent, falsify, strain the sense of
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
distortverb
Synonyms:
deform, twist, pervert, misinterpret, falsify, misrepresent
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "distort":
misrepresent, denature, deform, skew, disrupt, distortion, disturb
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#684 | try | |
#696 | color | |
#1007 | turn | |
#1524 | filter | |
#1899 | wind | |
#2192 | touch | |
#2254 | reach | |
#2595 | roll | |
#2742 | colour | |
#2989 | stress | |
#3139 | cook | |
#4532 | extend | |
#4680 | rack | |
#4858 | rick | |
#5452 | wrap | |
#5714 | curve | |
#6134 | fake | |
#6506 | bend | |
#6612 | strain | |
#7413 | alter | |
#7682 | lace | |
#7835 | twist | |
#9114 | flex | |
#9158 | worm | |
#10309 | distortion | |
#11336 | strive | |
#12764 | gloss | |
#13787 | squeeze | |
#14102 | buckle | |
#15115 | manipulate | |
#15716 | warp | |
#16043 | tense | |
#17309 | wrench | |
#17688 | fudge | |
#21915 | disrupt | |
#23336 | disturb | |
#25431 | tint | |
#28874 | skew | |
#28884 | sieve | |
#31885 | wrestle | |
#32665 | distort | |
#33817 | sift | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#42565 | puree | |
#43915 | twine | |
#53507 | heave | |
#57345 | misrepresent | |
#60356 | gouge | |
#61179 | sprain | |
#62776 | tinge | |
#64838 | falsify | |
#65281 | interpolate | |
#65958 | squirm | |
#66425 | enlace | |
#69333 | wring | |
#74436 | interlace | |
#78074 | deform | |
#86202 | filtrate | |
#91682 | extort | |
#94721 | discolor | |
#99671 | colorize | |
#103521 | wriggle | |
#111526 | intertwine | |
#112569 | sophisticate | |
#119181 | writhe | |
#150526 | entwine | |
#170879 | tinct | |
#192711 | denature | |
#195194 | contort | |
#203360 | garble | |
#233953 | convolute | |
#264718 | emblazon | |
#289695 | discolour | |
#308012 | wangle |
How to use distort in a sentence?
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
The vote may not have been completely transparent and its legitimacy is hampered by the boycott. But the overall result doesn't necessarily completely distort the voting pattern that we have seen in Congo.
It took an extra 20 years to do away with child labor, that's 20 years of children coughing their lungs out in textile mills or dragging wagons of coals underground instead of going to school because the court chose to distort the Constitution that way.
Monthly data is problematic to look at for broader structural trends because stocks tend to distort the data.
Let us take things as we find them let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
Translations for distort
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- التشوهArabic
- изопачавам, деформирам, изкривявамBulgarian
- verzerrenGerman
- misprezenti, tordi, distordiEsperanto
- distorsionarSpanish
- vääristellä, vääristää, vääntääFinnish
- distordre, déformerFrench
- cuir as a chuma, cuir casadh i, fiar, cuir cor i, cuir as a ríocht, athchum, camIrish
- csúsztat, torzítHungarian
- memutarbalikkanIndonesian
- deformare, distorcereItalian
- 曲げる, 歪めるJapanese
- ធ្វើអោយខុសពីភាពដើម, បង្ខូចទ្រង់ទ្រាយKhmer
- whakariroMāori
- verdraaien, vervalsen, vervormenDutch
- forvrenge, fordreieNorwegian
- wypaczaćPolish
- distorcerPortuguese
- исказить, искривить, изогнуть, искажать, извратить, изгибать, искривлять, извращатьRussian
- förvrängaSwedish
- บิดเบือนThai
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