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distort
[ dih-stawrt ]
verb (used with object)
- to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed:
Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
- to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent:
to distort the facts.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- 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.
distort
/ ɪˈɔː /
verb
- often passive to twist or pull out of shape; make bent or misshapen; contort; deform
- to alter or misrepresent (facts, motives, etc)
- electronics to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately, changing the shape of the waveform
Derived Forms
- 徱ˈٴǰٱ, adverb
- 徱ˈٴǰٱ, adjective
- 徱ˈٴǰٱness, noun
- 徱ˈٴǰٱ, noun
- 徱ˈٴǰپ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- 徱·ٴǰİ noun
- 徱·ٴǰt adjective
- ԴDzd·ٴǰiԲ adjective
- ԴDzd·ٴǰiԲ·ly adverb
- non徱·ٴǰt adjective
- v·徱·ٴǰ verb (used with object)
- ܲd·ٴǰiԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of distort1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The order calls for a purge of “divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” including works or exhibitions that reinforce the notion that “race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”
The beginning of Trump’s order claims “a concerted and widespread effort” to rewrite American history, “replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
Six years later, Ritter’s muse finally latched onto that wisp of a notion and it is now a full-blown “hall of distorted mirrors” thriller called “Retreat.”
The painting, which was presented to the building in 2019, was "purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before", he wrote on Truth Social on Monday morning.
Control over the country’s schools and education system will also mean denying young people and the larger public the means to understand and contextualize the present by distorting the past.
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