Dictionary Entry
distort
distort is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Distorted; misshapen. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Distorted; misshapen.
- 2transitive verb
To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
- 3transitive verb
To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.
- 4transitive verb
To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.
- 5verb
alter the shape of (something) by stress
"His body was deformed by leprosy"
- 6verb
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- 7verb
affect as in thought or feeling
"My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"
"The sadness tinged his life"
- 8verb
form into a spiral shape
"The cord is all twisted"
- 9verb
twist and press out of shape
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