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How to pronounce distort in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms contort, deform, wring
Type of twist, twine
Has types morph
Verb group wring, wrench
Derivation distortion
Type Words
Synonyms twine, twist
Type of change shape, change form, deform
Has types interweave, lace, mat, wring, snarl, spin, tangle, interlace, wrench, weave, contort, deform, enlace, entangle, entwine, twine, intertwine
Derivation distortion
Type Words
Synonyms falsify, garble, warp
Type of misrepresent, belie
Has types mutilate, mangle, murder
Derivation distortion
Type Words
Synonyms color, colour, tinge
Type of affect, touch on, bear on, impact, bear upon, touch
Type Words
Synonyms deform, strain
Type of form, shape
Has types jaundice

Examples of distort

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In Missouri you can distort an issue or an opponent's views as much as you want.
From the stltoday.com
Accordingly, small amounts of buying or selling could distort ISL's share price.
From the guardian.co.uk
Creeping uncertainty of this sort would inevitably slow and distort the economy.
From the theatlantic.com
You either have a poor understanding of the facts or intentionally distort them.
From the economist.com
The BEST run blew up in their faces with all their efforts to distort the truth.
From the forbes.com
To exclude Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Stepanova et al is to distort history.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
You distort what you see, attack what is not there and add insult to your reply.
From the economist.com
We no longer have the luxury of waiting for the MSM to smear and distort truth.
From the washingtontimes.com
To distort the history one knows to promote an economic ideology is much worse.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Falsify: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
  • Twist: form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted"
  • Contort: twist and press out of shape
  • Tinge: affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
  • Deform: alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
  • (distorted) deformed: so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
  • Distort was the second release and first remix album by Darkwave duo Collide which has been out of print for some time. However recently the album has been brought back in stock with a few more tracks and has undergone some more studio remixing and remastering for the 2006 release.
  • A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of an object, image, sound, waveform or other form of information or representation. Distortion is usually unwanted, and often many methods are employed to minimize it in practice. ...
  • Distorted is a progressive death/doom metal band from Bat-Yam, Israel.