Distort

[dɪ'stɔːt] or [dɪ'stɔrt]

解釋/意思:

(a.) Distorted; misshapen.

(v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.

(v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.

(v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

班森編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Twist, writhe, wrest, contort, deform.[2]. Pervert, misrepresent, falsify, strain the sense of.

珍妮特編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to turn a different way: to force out of the natural or regular shape or direction: to turn aside from the true meaning: to pervert: to misrepresent.—p.adj. Distort′ed.—n. Distor′tion a twisting out of regular shape: crookedness: perversion.—adj. Distort′ive causing distortion.

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