Found 3 items, similar to Distort.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: distort membelokkan, mengerotkan, menggeliat, mengubah
English → English (WordNet) Definition: distort distort v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, garble, warp] 2: form into a spiral shape; “The cord is all twisted” [syn: twist, twine] [ant: untwist] 3: twist and press out of shape [syn: contort, deform, wring] 4: affect as in thought or feeling; “My personal feelings color my judgment in this case”; “The sadness tinged his life” [syn: tinge, color, colour] 5: alter the shape of (something) by stress; “His body was deformed by leprosy” [syn: deform, strain]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Distort Distort \Dis*tort"\, a. [L. distortus, p. p. of distorquere to twist, distort; dis- + torquere to twist. See Torsion.] Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Distort \Dis*tort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Distorting.] 1. To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. [1913 Webster] Whose face was distorted with pain. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 2. To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. [1913 Webster] Wrath and malice, envy and revenge, do darken and distort the understandings of men. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] 3. To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. Syn: To twist; wrest; deform; pervert. [1913 Webster]