distort 1
verbdomain: v speaking
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Hypernym
misrepresent 1
verb
represent falsely
EnglishDerivationally related form
distortion 6
noun
the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
distortion 5
noun
the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
distortion 4
noun
a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)
Hyponym
mangle 3
verb
alter so as to make unrecognizable
