to distort
97
4.6
- verb
- /dɪˈstɔrt/
:
distorsionar
- But what we've done is we've completely distorted the way this works.
- distort the truth
- distort the facts
- distort reality
And one place that nostalgia distorts our vision is people.
- And one place that nostalgia distorts our vision is people.
- So it doesn't distort, you know, your perception.
- So I understand politics distorting the process.
- A con artist knows how to distort reality.
- But it it's a addiction that happens that distorts people's thinking.
- These are very real problems that are being distorted in the public eye.
- It is, it is indescribably damaging in that it distorts God's gift of sex.
- And what's worse again, is that it is distorting what we think most Americans believe in, right?
- And the fact that he biases towards subscribers has distorts that again.
- And the media, by the way, which completely distorted the Brian Sicknick's death.
Examples
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These dances, this music, it does distort young people's attitudes.
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It distorts the truth as much as reveals it.
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And what that does is distort campaigns themselves.
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- The witness is in a position to distort information received by millions of Americans.
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And it kind of distorts your reality.
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These are very real problems that are being distorted in the public eye.
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No, I think in usual fashion, Senator, you are distorting everything about me.
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Economists will still complain that this distorts labor markets, which it does.
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Tampering with market outcomes, the argument goes, risks distorting incentives and reducing efficiency and innovation.
Academic text (2011) -
The news report distorted the facts about the incident, leading to public confusion.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
To say something that is not true to trick someone
144
6.3
To change what someone said to make it mean something different, often to mislead
101
7.9
To change a text by adding words, often to make it false
80
6.5
To change someone's opinion or how a story appears, often unfairly
71
6.9
Give a false story about someone or something to trick people
61
5.4
To change information so it becomes unfair or wrong
44
7.3
To make documents or facts not true to deceive people
30
7.4
To change facts or stories so they are not true
16
7.2
Change the meaning or purpose so it becomes wrong
11
7.5
To change numbers or facts dishonestly to hide the truth
10
7.7
To change something to hide the truth
10
8.0
To describe a person or thing unfairly
8
8.0
To change a message so people cannot understand it
5
5.3
To make a story seem better than it really is
3
5.8
To give wrong information in a report, often by mistake
3
5.9
To say something that is not exactly what happened to make it look better
1
6.4
Change words or facts to make a person look bad
Change facts on purpose to make something seem better
Antonyms
How Misleading
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1.3
50
7.3
- Formal
44
7.3
97
4.6
71
6.9
14
6.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word distort comes from the Latin parts dis- 'apart' and torquere 'to twist', and you can see the same idea in words like contort. So to distort the truth is to 'twist it apart' from the facts, making it false or wrong.