What is another word for distort?
1254 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dɪstˈɔːt], [ dɪstˈɔːt], [ d_ɪ_s_t_ˈɔː_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for distort:- contort (noun)
- deform (noun)
- belie (verb)
- bias (verb)
- blemish (verb)
- botch (verb)
- buckle (verb)
- cloud (verb)
- communication (verb)
- contact (verb)
- deface (verb)
- deform (verb)
- deform; falsify (verb)
- disfigure (verb)
- distend (verb)
- disturb (verb)
- exaggerate (verb)
- falsify (verb)
- grimace (verb)
- gum up (verb)
- hyperbolize (verb)
- injure (verb)
- lie (verb)
- misconstrue (verb)
- misinterpret (verb)
- misrepresent (verb)
- misrepresent/misquote (verb)
- misshape (verb)
- misstate (verb)
- mutilate (verb)
- overestimate (verb)
- parody (verb)
- pervert (verb)
- prejudice (verb)
- prevaricate (verb)
- screw (verb)
- squash (verb)
- strain (verb)
- travesty (verb)
- wrench (verb)
- writhe (verb)
- other synonyms
- blemish
- change
- cloud
- confuse
- exaggerate
- injure
- misdirect
- misrepresent
- mutilate
- pervert
- prevaricate
- wind
- writhe
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Distort:
n.
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- deceive.
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- beautiful.
v.
•belie (verb)- dis-guise,
- trumps up,
- co-loring,
- giving lie to,
- dis-tort,
- mis-leads,
- be lying,
- mis-colors,
- gave the lie to,
- mis leads,
- trumping up,
- glossing over,
- be-lying,
- mis-lead,
- mis-colored,
- gives the lie to,
- glosses over,
- be-lied,
- dis guising,
- mis lead,
- mis-coloring,
- giving the lie to,
- gave lie to,
- dis-guises,
- mis colors,
- mis-leading,
- mis-color,
- dis-guising,
- miscolored,
- dis-torts,
- dis-guised,
- dis torts,
- dis tort,
- miscolors,
- dis guised,
- mis colored,
- gives lie to,
- co loring,
- dis guise,
- be lied,
- mis color,
- mis leading,
- dis guises,
- mis coloring.
- pre-possessing,
- pre-possesses,
- making partial,
- in-cline,
- pre possesses,
- pre possessing,
- pre-possessed,
- makes partial,
- pre-possess,
- in clines,
- in cline,
- pre possess,
- pre possessed,
- in-clines,
- made partial.
- check,
- dot,
- stain,
- mar,
- chip,
- speck,
- spot,
- spoil,
- fracture,
- blister,
- hack,
- fleck,
- gash,
- score,
- pockmark,
- blot,
- mark,
- scratch,
- notch,
- taint,
- nick,
- scrape,
- splotch,
- abrade,
- hurt,
- kink,
- scar,
- flaw,
- tarnish,
- slit,
- scuff,
- damage,
- defect,
- discolor,
- freckle.
- mis conjectured,
- mis conjecture,
- mis-conjectures,
- misconjecturing,
- mis-applies,
- mis calculated,
- mis-apply,
- mis judging,
- mis-calculate,
- mis-conjecturing,
- goofing up,
- mis handling,
- mis judges,
- mis-judging,
- pulls boner,
- flubbing,
- mis computed,
- miscomputing,
- mis handle,
- mis applying,
- mis calculates,
- mis-conjectured,
- mis calculating,
- mis judged,
- mis-calculating,
- mis-judged,
- mis-computed,
- mis conjecturing,
- mis-compute,
- mis-applied,
- mis conjectures,
- mis-manage,
- mis-calculated,
- mis manages,
- mis-handling,
- mis manage,
- mis applied,
- mis handles,
- mis computing,
- bollixes,
- pulling boner,
- pull boner,
- mis-computes,
- goofed up,
- pulled boner,
- mis-manages,
- misconjectures,
- mis-handle,
- mis-conjecture,
- mis apply,
- mis-computing,
- mis-handled,
- mis handled,
- mis-applying,
- mis-managed,
- mis compute,
- pulled a boner,
- mucks up,
- mis-judges,
- mis calculate,
- mis managed,
- mis applies,
- mis-calculates,
- miscomputed,
- mis-handles,
- mis managing,
- mis computes,
- goofs up,
- misconjectured,
- pulls a boner,
- pulling a boner,
- mucking up,
- mis-managing,
- miscomputes.
- be fuddling,
- be fuddled,
- be-fuddled,
- dis orient,
- be-clouds,
- dis-tract,
- be clouding,
- be clouds,
- be-fuddle,
- be-clouded,
- dis orients,
- dis tract,
- be fuddles,
- be-fuddles,
- be-cloud,
- be clouded,
- dis-orienting,
- dis-orient,
- dis-tracts,
- dis-oriented,
- dis oriented,
- dis tracts,
- dis-orients,
- dis orienting,
- be-fuddling,
- be fuddle,
- be-clouding.
- de-facing,
- de faced,
- de stroys,
- de forms,
- de-formed,
- de-forms,
- de stroyed,
- de-face,
- de-form,
- de-faced,
- de-faces,
- DE Form,
- de facing,
- de faces,
- de formed,
- de forming,
- de stroying,
- de face,
- de-stroying,
- de-stroys,
- de-stroy,
- de-forming,
- de-stroyed,
- de stroy.
- deviate,
- make out like,
- misinterpret,
- fake,
- curve,
- slant,
- put one on,
- snow,
- angle,
- color,
- whitewash,
- alter,
- con,
- doctor,
- fudge,
- torture,
- scam.
- dis fashioned,
- dis-fashion,
- de filing,
- dis fashions,
- dis-fashioned,
- disfashioning,
- dis figuring,
- dis-figures,
- de files,
- dis featured,
- dis fashion,
- dis-figured,
- de filed,
- disfeatures,
- dis figured,
- de-file,
- dis features,
- disfashioned,
- dis figures,
- disfeaturing,
- dis fashioning,
- dis featuring,
- de-filed,
- dis-figure,
- dis-fashions,
- dis-feature,
- dis-features,
- dis-featuring,
- de file,
- de-filing,
- dis figure,
- dis-figuring,
- dis feature,
- dis-fashioning,
- de-files,
- disfashions,
- dis-featured.
- in crease,
- in creases,
- dis tend,
- dis tending,
- dis-tends,
- in-crease,
- in creasing,
- dis tends,
- dis-tended,
- dis-tending,
- in-creases,
- dis-tend,
- in-creased,
- dis tended.
- dis organized,
- dis composed,
- dis organize,
- dis composes,
- dis-organizing,
- dis-organized,
- dis place,
- re place,
- inter-fere,
- un-settled,
- dis arranged,
- re move,
- dis-arraying,
- de ranged,
- re moved,
- dis-arranges,
- up-setting,
- dis compose,
- inter fere,
- dis-placing,
- re moving,
- re-place,
- re-places,
- dis arranging,
- inter feres,
- un-settle,
- dis-organize,
- de-ranged,
- up-set,
- dis-arrays,
- re places,
- dis-arrayed,
- dis arraying,
- up sets,
- de-ranges,
- un settled,
- un settle,
- dis places,
- dis-organizes,
- re placing,
- re-moves,
- dis organizes,
- dis-compose,
- dis placing,
- de-range,
- de-ranging,
- up setting,
- re-placed,
- re-moving,
- un settles,
- re-move,
- dis composing,
- de ranges,
- de ranging,
- dis-arranged,
- un settling,
- dis array,
- un-settling,
- dis-composing,
- dis arrange,
- dis-composed,
- dis arrayed,
- dis-places,
- dis-array,
- dis-arrange,
- re-placing,
- dis arranges,
- dis organizing,
- dis-placed,
- dis placed,
- dis arrays,
- dis-place,
- inter-feres,
- dis-composes,
- dis-arranging,
- up-sets,
- re placed,
- de range.
- overestimate,
- overpraise,
- stretch,
- overvalue,
- hyperbolize,
- Overdevelop,
- aggrandize,
- embellish,
- overrate,
- caricature.
- faking it,
- four-flushes,
- four flushes,
- fakes it,
- frames up,
- phonying up,
- phonied up,
- fourflush,
- co oking,
- co oked,
- pro-mote,
- four flushed,
- fourflushed,
- deaconing,
- framing up,
- pro moting,
- faked it,
- pro-motes,
- phonies up,
- put act,
- co-oking,
- put an act,
- four-flushed,
- deaconed,
- pro-moting,
- fourflushing,
- fourflushes,
- four flushing,
- co-oked.
- screw ones face,
- screwing up face,
- screwed one face,
- screwed up one face,
- screws face,
- make face,
- screwed one's face,
- screws ones face,
- makes a wry face,
- screwed ones face,
- making a face,
- screw face,
- screw up ones face,
- making wry face,
- screwing ones face,
- screw one's face,
- made wry face,
- made face,
- screwing up one face,
- screwing one's face,
- screwed up ones face,
- screws up one's face,
- screw up one face,
- screws up one face,
- screws up ones face,
- makes a face,
- made a face,
- screws one face,
- screwed up face,
- making face,
- screwing up one's face,
- screwing face,
- screwing up ones face,
- makes wry face,
- screwed face,
- made a wry face,
- making a wry face,
- make wry face,
- screwing one face,
- screw one face,
- screwed up one's face,
- makes face,
- screws up face,
- screws one's face,
- screw up face.
- makes muck of,
- making a muck of,
- misconjectuing,
- misconjectued,
- makes a muck of,
- misconjectus,
- made a muck of,
- make muck of,
- making muck of,
- made muck of.
- blow up out proportion,
- blowing up out of proportion,
- blew up out of proportion,
- blew up out proportion,
- blowing up out proportion,
- iing,
- blows up out proportion,
- blows up out of proportion.
- dis-tressed,
- draws blood,
- drew blood,
- under-mined,
- hacked up,
- drawing blood,
- under mined,
- dis tressed,
- hacks up,
- under-mining,
- dis tresses,
- dis tress,
- dis-tresses,
- under mining,
- dis-tress,
- hacking up.
- soft soaped,
- mis inform,
- bore false witness,
- mis-spoken,
- are untruthful,
- soft-soaps,
- mis informed,
- putting up front,
- mis-guiding,
- BSES,
- in vented,
- mis instruct,
- be guiles,
- mis-instructed,
- in vent,
- mis-informed,
- mis spoke,
- dis-simulating,
- mis guiding,
- softsoaped,
- wert untruthful,
- dis simulates,
- mis-speaks,
- in venting,
- mis speaking,
- mis speaks,
- put up front,
- putting front,
- mis instructs,
- puts up front,
- BSED,
- de ludes,
- misguides,
- puts a front,
- misinstructing,
- mis-instructs,
- art untruthful,
- mis speak,
- being untruthful,
- putting up a front,
- mis informs,
- is untruthful,
- in-vent,
- mis-speaking,
- putting a front,
- mis-informs,
- phonying,
- softsoaping,
- mis guide,
- soft soaping,
- in-vents,
- put a front,
- mis-speak,
- put front,
- mis-informing,
- mis-spoke,
- mis-inform,
- mis guides,
- puts front,
- broke promise,
- be guile,
- mis-instruct,
- softsoap,
- brake promise,
- be-guile,
- de-lude,
- dis-simulates,
- puts up a front,
- beared false witness,
- de lude,
- mis-guide,
- bare false witness,
- phonied,
- softsoaps,
- mis instructing,
- in-venting,
- dis simulating,
- mis-guides,
- dis simulate,
- strung along,
- misspoke,
- breaking promise,
- in vents,
- dis simulated,
- mis instructed,
- wast untruthful,
- bsing,
- were untruthful,
- misinstructs,
- mis-guided,
- mis informing,
- am untruthful,
- breaks promise,
- mis-instructing,
- bears false witness,
- mis spoken,
- dis-simulate,
- de-ludes,
- be-guiles,
- dis-simulated,
- in-vented.
- mis takes,
- mis-reading,
- mis-conceiving,
- mis-apprehended,
- mis taken,
- mis-take,
- mis take,
- mis translates,
- mis apprehended,
- mis-translated,
- mis read,
- mis-translate,
- mis apprehends,
- mis apprehending,
- mis-construes,
- mis-understanding,
- mis reading,
- mis translating,
- mis translate,
- mis conceive,
- mis understanding,
- mis-understood,
- mis-takes,
- mis construes,
- mis understands,
- mis-took,
- taking the wrong way,
- took the wrong way,
- mis construed,
- mis-taking,
- mis translated,
- mis understand,
- mis-apprehend,
- mis-conceived,
- mis conceived,
- mis-read,
- mis understood,
- mis apprehend,
- mis reads,
- mis-construing,
- mis construing,
- mis-understand,
- mistranslating,
- mis-apprehending,
- take wrong way,
- mis-translates,
- mis-translating,
- mis taking,
- mis-reads,
- mis conceives,
- mis-conceive,
- taking wrong way,
- mis took,
- takes the wrong way,
- mis-apprehends,
- took wrong way,
- mis-conceives,
- mis-construe,
- mis construe,
- mis-understands,
- mis conceiving,
- takes wrong way,
- mis-construed.
- mis-quoted,
- over-stating,
- over stating,
- mis representing,
- mis quotes,
- over-stated,
- spreading it on,
- spreading on,
- over-state,
- mis-quoting,
- mis quoted,
- throw curve,
- threw a curve,
- spreads on,
- mis-quote,
- taking out context,
- spreads it on,
- took out of context,
- throws a curve,
- over-states,
- giving snow job,
- take out context,
- takes out context,
- throws curve,
- gave snow job,
- mis-represented,
- gives snow job,
- throwing curve,
- mis-quotes,
- mis represents,
- over states,
- throwing a curve,
- took out context,
- takes out of context,
- mis quoting,
- mis-representing,
- mis represented,
- threw curve,
- over state,
- mis quote,
- mis-represents,
- taking out of context.
- mis shaped,
- mis shaping,
- malforms,
- mis-shape,
- mis-shapes,
- mis-shaped,
- mis shape,
- mis-shaping,
- malforming,
- mis shapes,
- mis shapen.
- cutting pieces,
- hashes up,
- dis-membered,
- dis membered,
- cut pieces,
- hashing up,
- cuts to pieces,
- dis members,
- dis-member,
- dis member,
- cuts pieces,
- cutting to pieces,
- dis-members.
- did a takeoff of,
- de-rides,
- does takeoff of,
- doeth a takeoff of,
- do takeoff of,
- sheiked,
- de rides,
- de riding,
- does a takeoff of,
- didst a takeoff of,
- doing takeoff of,
- dost a takeoff of,
- de-riding,
- doest a takeoff of,
- did takeoff of,
- de ride,
- poking fun at,
- doth a takeoff of,
- sheiking,
- doth takeoff of,
- doeth takeoff of,
- dost takeoff of,
- sending up,
- doing a takeoff of,
- doest takeoff of,
- de-ride,
- didst takeoff of.
- debase,
- demoralize,
- adulterate,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- vitiate,
- corrupt,
- seduce,
- abase,
- degrade,
- debauch.
- dis posing,
- pre-dispose,
- pre judged,
- dis-posed,
- dis pose,
- pre judging,
- pre judges,
- pre dispose,
- pre-judged,
- dis-posing,
- pre-disposing,
- pre-disposed,
- dis-pose,
- pre-judges,
- pre-judging,
- pre disposing,
- pre-disposes,
- dis posed,
- pre disposes.
- beats around the bush,
- begs the question,
- begging question,
- beating around bush,
- beats around bush,
- begged question,
- begged the question,
- begs question,
- beg question.
- draws tight,
- over-works,
- over exerting,
- drawing tight,
- over work,
- over worked,
- pushes to limit,
- ex tended,
- drew tight,
- over-exerting,
- over-exerts,
- pushing to limit,
- pushed the limit,
- over-taxed,
- over-tax,
- ex tending,
- over working,
- ex-tended,
- ex tend,
- over-worked,
- over taxes,
- ex-tends,
- pushing to the limit,
- over works,
- push limit,
- over exerts,
- over-taxing,
- ex-tend,
- pushed to the limit,
- over tax,
- over taxed,
- pushes the limit,
- pushed to limit,
- overexerted,
- pushes to the limit,
- over-work,
- pushes limit,
- ex tends,
- over exert,
- over-working,
- ex-tending,
- over exerted,
- pushed limit,
- overexerts,
- pushing limit,
- push to limit,
- over-exerted,
- push the limit,
- over taxing,
- pushing the limit,
- over-taxes.
- makes mockery of,
- making a mockery of,
- playing on,
- played on,
- makes a mockery of,
- plays on,
- made a mockery of,
- make mockery of,
- making mockery of,
- made mockery of.
Other synonyms:
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- become.
- Overdrawing,
- make too much of,
- misreported,
- scamming,
- over-emphasize,
- overdo,
- overemphasize,
- overemphasized,
- Romanced,
- loud talk,
- lay on thick,
- scammed,
- go to extremes,
- laying it on thick,
- overemphasizes,
- mis-report,
- romance,
- overemphasizing,
- overestimating,
- overestimated,
- Misreport,
- lay it on thick,
- over-estimate,
- Caricaturing,
- pretty up,
- blow out of proportion,
- overdraw,
- misreporting,
- laid on thick,
- overestimates,
- Overdrawn,
- Caricatured,
- Romancing.
- jiving,
- beating around the bush,
- beat around the bush,
- jive,
- beat around bush,
- jives,
- begging the question,
- beg the question.
- Wreathing,
- Wreathen,
- Snaking,
- spiralled,
- corkscrews,
- spiraled,
- corkscrewing,
- Zigzagging,
- corkscrew,
- spiraling,
- wreathed,
- wreathes,
- wreathe,
- corkscrewed,
- Snaked,
- Zigzagged,
- spiralling,
- zigzags.
- scarify,
- ironical,
- cut up,
- bastardize,
- varnish,
- defacement,
- make faces,
- roll,
- Misrelate,
- convolute,
- discolour,
- plait,
- fog up,
- hairpin,
- juggle,
- crab,
- infect,
- break,
- refract,
- ravage,
- falsification,
- defile,
- wriggle,
- distortion,
- camouflage,
- despoil,
- ulcerate,
- wring,
- fix,
- craze,
- Metamorphoses,
- translation,
- trick out,
- changeable,
- jaundiced,
- Misrender,
- Misdeem,
- Paralogize,
- gouge,
- change form,
- vulgarize,
- interpolate,
- deformation,
- disorder,
- degenerate,
- pollute,
- crumple,
- perversion,
- skew,
- misjudge,
- reach,
- filter out,
- titivate,
- argue insincerely,
- explain away,
- misshapen,
- affect,
- disfiguration,
- reason ill,
- worm,
- rationalize,
- ugly,
- separate out,
- aberration,
- Miscite,
- wring out,
- mock,
- extend,
- subvert,
- denature,
- spring,
- tinct,
- expand,
- lace,
- Misteach,
- heave,
- cook,
- sift,
- puree,
- take off,
- blur,
- fabricate,
- transformation,
- deflection,
- play upon words,
- squeeze,
- pull,
- mat,
- canonization,
- imbue,
- misuse,
- strive,
- arrange,
- zigzag,
- matted,
- sway,
- disfigurement,
- assume,
- enlace,
- twist around,
- misdirect,
- mask,
- shapeless,
- filtrate,
- transmogrification,
- Viaticum,
- Unshape,
- try,
- prove false,
- twin,
- poison,
- mislead,
- ridicule,
- confound,
- variable,
- fog,
- manipulate,
- turn away,
- coarsen,
- mutilated,
- give a false coloring to,
- divert,
- deformity,
- diffract,
- contaminate,
- hemimetabolous,
- abuse,
- metamorphic,
- turn,
- malformed,
- split,
- conversion,
- lopsided,
- metabolic,
- bulge,
- falsehood,
- obscure,
- metamorphosis,
- overextend,
- twisting,
- gild,
- color in,
- wrick,
- conceal,
- tense up,
- Colour In,
- colorise,
- envious,
- wrap,
- turn aside,
- metabolism,
- dogleg,
- get wrong,
- alloy,
- scab,
- diffuse,
- tinge,
- contortion,
- colourize,
- unfair,
- understate,
- variational,
- abnormality,
- devalue,
- sieve,
- wry,
- diverge,
- contorted,
- dress up,
- vex,
- gloss,
- tortuosity,
- disguise,
- Misexpound,
- distorted shape,
- deodorize,
- ironic,
- disperse,
- misapprehend,
- cicatrize,
- cheapen,
- soil,
- crooked,
- Spined,
- deformed,
- squirm,
- influence,
- mischievousness,
- transfiguration,
- daub,
- Defigure,
- canker,
- Detort,
- deflect,
- jumble,
- violence,
- sidetrack,
- Deformer,
- colorize,
- deflower,
- colourise,
- warped,
- muddle,
- curved,
- burlesque,
- rick,
- wrestle,
- corruption,
- matting,
- interlace,
- alteration,
- take amiss,
- prostitute,
- scatter,
- obfuscate,
- ravish,
- change shape,
- sprain,
- Unform,
- extort,
- intertwine,
- mutation,
- rig,
- dishonest,
- violate,
- entwine.
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Equivalence
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
deform.
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Verb, base form
misrepresent, skew, deform.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
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Independent
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Verb, base form
disrupt, disturb, tarnish, alter, falsify, impair, denature, undermine, maim, discredit, upset, jeopardize, bias, confuse, erode, divert, hamper, twist, violate, infringe, tamper, interrupt, bend, hinder, impede, distract, subvert, confound, jeopardise, detract, destabilize, overturn, affect, interfere.
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Verb, base form
Antonyms for Distort:
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v.
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contact
untwist.
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deform; falsify
increase, represent, rise, tell truth, smooth, preserve, straighten, beautify, straight, shape nicely, build, ascend, keep, be honest, improve, stay.
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Other antonyms:
illuminate, illustrate, unbend, spell out, explain, uncurl, clarify, decipher, interpret, clear.
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contact
Homophones for Distort:
- distrait, doctorate, Dutch Treat, dogtrot, distorted, dish the dirt, dastard, dexterity, dog-tired, destroyed.
Hypernym for Distort:
v.
Hyponym for Distort:
v.
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communication
belie, misrepresent.
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contact
change shape, deform, change form.
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communication