distort
/dɪsˈtoɹt/ verb C1- To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
- To become misshapen.
- To give a false or misleading account of; pervert. · In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
He/she/it distorts · Past distorted · Past participle distorted · -ing form distorting
Verb forms
- Base form
- distort
- He/she/it
- distorts
- Past
- distorted
- Past participle
- distorted
- -ing form
- distorting
From the library
One arm was hanging out of the bed; from shoulder to elbow it was moulded after the arms of Germain Pillon’s “Graces,” but the fore-arm seemed to be slightly distorted by convulsion, and the hand, so delicately formed, was resting with stiff outstretched fingers on the framework of the bed.
The son, on the other hand, had dropped all that jaunty, dashing style which had characterized him, and the ferocity of a dangerous wild beast gleamed in his dark eyes and distorted his handsome features.
The attitude had drawn all the stagnant blood to the face, and no man could have recognised that distorted liver-coloured countenance; but his height, his dress, and his hair were all sufficient to show my client, when we had drawn the body up, that it was indeed his missing butler.
Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted baboon-like countenance of the murdered man.
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