distort

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. verb make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
  2. verb form into a spiral shape
  3. verb twist and press out of shape

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

falsify, garble, warp

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