Distort Meaning
/dɪsˈtɔːt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo bring something out of shape, to misshape.
verbTo become misshapen.
Sentence Examples
The mirror seemed to distort her reflection.
Don't distort the facts to suit your argument.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The funhouse mirrors ____ your reflection into a wavy image.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A true scientist would not ____ facts.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"Her face was ugly and her mouth distort."
— 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The funhouse mirrors ____ your reflection into a wavy image.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
A true scientist would not ____ facts.