verb
definition
To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
definition
To become misshapen.
definition
To give a false or misleading account of
example
In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
adjective
definition
That distorts.
Examples of distorting in a Sentence
These can affect call quality, distorting, garbling or interrupting calls.
We're sick of seeing all of this through the distorting prism of the mass media.
I find Lipstadt's unsustainable allegations of manipulating, distorting, and skewing documents and quotations highly defamatory.
Inflation at the present rate has a seriously distorting effect on company profitability, given the methods of accounting generally employed in Britain today.
The indirect costs refer to lost wealth caused by the tax system distorting incentives to work, save and invest.
The deformation being caused by the use of distorting mirrors.
These are unreasonable remarks making profound confusing of the right and wrong and completely distorting the objective reality.
He maintains that " the Greek of the New Testament may never be understood as classical Greek is understood," and accuses the revisers of distorting the meaning " by translating in accordance with Attic idiom phrases that convey in later Greek a wholly different sense, the sense which the earlier translators in happy ignorance had recognized that the context demanded."
Adding reverb to your layered snares or distorting extra kicks is an idea.
These feelings undermine the self-respect of peoples and nations, distorting their sense of reality.
Distorting the gospel The teaching of eternal torment in Hell distorts the gospel message.
In 1978, while living in Aspen, Giese decided to apply these concepts to ski boots.His goal was to develop a boot that allowed ankle flexion without distorting the shape of the boot shell.
The genuine article will have a specific, high-quality hinge that you should be able to bend gently without distorting or "popping."
The hard coat scratch resistance is the final finish on the lens.The Q4 polarized gray and smoke lenses reduce brightness without distorting color.
Analgesics work at the level of the nerves, either by blocking the signal from the peripheral nervous system or by distorting the interpretation by the central nervous system.
Language disorders include stuttering; articulation disorders, such as substituting one sound for another (tandy for candy); omitting a sound (canny for candy); or distorting a sound (shlip for slip).
Now this is exactly the shape which we should expect to find in molecules composed of two spherical atoms distorting one another by their mutual forces, and all gases for which n=2 are diatomic.
Thus driven back upon himself, Schopenhauer fell into morbid meditations, and the world which he saw, if it was stripped naked of its disguises, lost its proportions in the distorting light.