Distort is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTORT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to twist or bend out of shape
• pull or twist out of shape
• become twisted out of shape
• give a misleading or false account or impression of
• change the form of (an electrical signal or sound wave) during transmission, amplification, or other processing
• misrepresent (the truth or facts)
• To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
• To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.
• To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
• make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
• form into a spiral shape
• twist and press out of shape
• affect as in thought or feeling
• alter the shape of (something) by stress
ADJECTIVE:
• Distorted; misshapen.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to put out of shape

Words related to DISTORT

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Words that contain DISTORT

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How to use DISTORT in a sentence

• If delicate carving forms part of your design, I should say statuary is the best, as you have no veins to distort your detail.
• The mental strain was beginning to distort everything.
• It undoubtedly injured them exactly in proportion as the philanthropic motive led the writers to distort or to exaggerate the truth.
• It is not the business of those who are enlightened to protest against conventional things, unless those conventions obscure and distort the truth.
• We ought not, however, to distort the truth of biography or to corrupt criticism, from a personal wish to make more out of his feeling than fact and probability warrant.
• It seems to me that you distort the facts to make them fit in with your theory.
• The electoral college system, by its nature, was apt to distort the situation.
• The cat, following her predatory instincts, is at once more logical and less ruthless, because the question of property does not distort her vision.
• History may distort truth, and will distort it for a time, by the superior efforts at justification of those who are conscious of needing it most.
• Curved surfaces, as Cavaille-Coll, who was an expert in this matter, once told me, distort sound as curved mirrors distort images.
• He does not spare the Cork farmer, but he does not distort him.
• Finally, for the sake of those to whom nothing can be stated so well but that they misunderstand and distort it, we must add a word, in case they can understand even that.
• On the other hand, no good can come of the attempt to distort the development of those powers or to seek conformity to any type.
• Everything was done to encourage them, and nothing to suppress, or distort them.
• I had so much experience of his intensely jealous temperament that I feared he might magnify and distort the incident.
• The faithful pastor or evangelist is most sorely assailed, every device of Satan being used to distort the one all-important message of Grace into something that is not vital.
• Do not distort the rhythm, but bend it sufficiently to emphasize important words and syllables, by holding them a little, at the expense of unimportant words or syllables.
• Ambition, pride, wilfulness, or any earthly passion, will distort her being.
• In the third place, these interpretations distort the meaning of those who employ such terms in regard to the Deity.
• What they had was innocuous to him but to pursue it any further might distort the man that Seong Seob might become.
• Pinault would have been the master for me if he had not in some strange way striven to disguise and distort the best traits in his talent.
• I saw a sort of hatred for those who would trouble him distort her face, resplendent with superhuman maternity.
• This addition cannot reasonably be said in any way to distort or disagree with, though it adds to, the sacred narrative.
• With that her face seemed to distort itself, The arms to rise, to grasp me, and to hold.
• Like myth everywhere, these notions express judgments which they do not originate, although they may strengthen or distort them in giving them expression.
• But how to do it? The movements of the creature would disturb the setting of the plastic covering, and distort the mold.
• It was characteristic of the Regiment that they carried out in war their peace training, never allowing the atmosphere of excitement to distort their actions.
• Their wish is not to distort and cramp nature by bringing it within the limits of the ritual, but to enlarge and expand the ritual until it becomes cosmic.

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