Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to distort
Participle: distorted
Gerund: distorting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | distort |
| you | distort |
| he;she;it | distorts |
| we | distort |
| you | distort |
| they | distort |
Perfect
| I | have distorted |
| you | have distorted |
| he;she;it | has distorted |
| we | have distorted |
| you | have distorted |
| they | have distorted |
Past
| I | distorted |
| you | distorted |
| he;she;it | distorted |
| we | distorted |
| you | distorted |
| they | distorted |
Pluperfect
| I | had distorted |
| you | had distorted |
| he;she;it | had distorted |
| we | had distorted |
| you | had distorted |
| they | had distorted |
Future
| I | will distort |
| you | will distort |
| he;she;it | will distort |
| we | will distort |
| you | will distort |
| they | will distort |
Future Perfect
| I | will have distorted |
| you | will have distorted |
| he;she;it | will have distorted |
| we | will have distorted |
| you | will have distorted |
| they | will have distorted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | distort |
| you | distort |
| he;she;it | distort |
| we | distort |
| you | distort |
| they | distort |
Perfect
| I | have distorted |
| you | have distorted |
| he;she;it | have distorted |
| we | have distorted |
| you | have distorted |
| they | have distorted |
Imperfect
| I | distorted |
| you | distorted |
| he;she;it | distorted |
| we | distorted |
| you | distorted |
| they | distorted |
Pluperfect
| I | had distorted |
| you | had distorted |
| he;she;it | had distorted |
| we | had distorted |
| you | had distorted |
| they | had distorted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would distort |
| you | would distort |
| he;she;it | would distort |
| we | would distort |
| you | would distort |
| they | would distort |
Perfect
| I | would have distorted |
| you | would have distorted |
| he;she;it | would have distorted |
| we | would have distorted |
| you | would have distorted |
| they | would have distorted |
Imperative
| you | distort |
| we | Let's distort |
| you | distort |
Verbs conjugated like 'distort'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'distort'
disport,
desport,
detort,
discord,
discost,
disform,
dishorn,
disorb,
dispart,
dispost,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- crush
- warp, deform, twist, wrench, bend
- misconstrue
- pervert, deceive, mislead, misinterpret, falsify
Antonyms
- to make pretty
- deface, defigure, disfigure, decorate
- To change the form of, negatively.
- form
- crush
- upraise, consolidate, compact, compress
- misconstrue
- understand, solve, interpret, discern
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1586, from L. distortus, pp. of distorquere "to twist different ways, distort," from dis- "completely" + torquere "to twist" (see thwart).
2. Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Sample Sentences
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This she did with the utmost politeness, though cold by race, and through her politeness ran a sense of what the Teutons call Duty, which would once have repelled me; but I have wandered over a great part of the world and I know it now to be a distorted kind of virtue. [1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:]
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In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.