Crossword-Solution: DISTORT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distort | a. | Distorted; misshapen. |
| Distort | v. t. | To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body. |
| Distort | v. t. | To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally. |
| Distort | v. t. | To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning. |
We have 85 clues for the answer “DISTORT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deceptively reinterpret | 1 answer |
| Give a misleading account of | 1 answer |
| misrepresent (the truth or facts) | 1 answer |
| Give a misleading version of | 1 answer |
| Make too much of, maybe | 1 answer |
| Skew, as data | 1 answer |
| Skew, like the truth | 1 answer |
| Twist in a way | 2 answers |
| MAKE crooked | 2 answers |
| WRENCH out of natural shape | 2 answers |
| alchemise | 2 answers |
| alchemize | 2 answers |
| misdescribe | 2 answers |
| Get out of shape | 3 answers |
| Make fuzzy | 4 answers |
| DENATURALIZE | 4 answers |
| Put out of shape | 6 answers |
| sprain | 6 answers |
| barbarise | 7 answers |
| barbarize | 7 answers |
| gloze | 8 answers |
| misconceive | 8 answers |
| misteach | 8 answers |
| Twist out of Shape | 9 answers |
| Bend out of shape | 9 answers |
| Gnarl | 11 answers |
| Overstate | 12 answers |
| Misinform | 14 answers |
| screw | 15 answers |
| misconstrue | 16 answers |
| crinkle | 18 answers |
| misinterpret | 18 answers |
| Contort | 18 answers |
| misunderstand | 19 answers |
| brutalize | 19 answers |
| wrest | 20 answers |
| brutalise | 21 answers |
| Grimace | 22 answers |
| Reshape | 22 answers |
| belie | 23 answers |
| Devalue | 23 answers |
| Deface | 25 answers |
| misread | 25 answers |
| Wrench | 26 answers |
| Disfigure | 26 answers |
| Buckle | 26 answers |
| Garble | 29 answers |
| forge | 29 answers |
| misshape | 30 answers |
| DENATURALISE | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DISTORT (5)
This is not `poor grammar', as hackers are generally quite well aware of what they are doing when they distort the language.
Otherwise, he feared that it might be used carelessly and thereby distort its moral and redemptive quality.
Seward is loved not only by his household and his friends, but even by his patients, who, being some of them hardly in mental equilibrium, are apt to distort causes and effects.
But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
Sometimes he produced actual dislocation, but usually he said he could so distort his muscles as to imitate in the closest degree the dislocations.
Quotes with DISTORT (3)
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.
Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it i…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1974–2024).