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These sunglasses distort my vision.distort = alter in an unnatural or untrue way
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The article distorted the politician’s comments, making them sound much worse than they were.distorted = twisted (altered in an untrue way)
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Her face was distorted by pain.distorted = altered in an unnatural way
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Heat and vibration from the cutting process can distort the plastic.distort = bend in an undesired way
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The funhouse mirror distorted her reflection, making her head look huge.distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
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Also, you'll find out soon enough that John distorts--when he isn't out-and-out lying. (source)distorts = alters the truth
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I looked out of the window, saw Askew far out there, heading away, distorted by the water on the pane. (source)distorted = altered in an unnatural way
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My memories were distorted by twenty-five intervening years. (source)distorted = altered in an untrue way
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The split-second jump cut in the feed would be masked by the momentary video distortion that occurred when the cameras switched into night-vision mode.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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8TH JUROR: He said fifteen. 3RD JUROR: Now I'm telling you he said twenty. What're you trying to distort . . . (source)distort = to alter something in an untrue way
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She drove to the birth in dark glasses, trying to peer through the waves distorting her vision.† (source)
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But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias.† (source)
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The rounded lid of the compact distorts my features a little, but it's still me.† (source)
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But in the shopwindow, she has caught herself off guard, vulnerable to reality undistorted by self-delusion.† (source)undistorted = not altered in an unnatural or untrue waystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undistorted means not and reverses the meaning of distorted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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CONE OF SILENCE: the field of a distorter that limits the carrying power of the voice or any other vibrator by damping the vibrations with an image-vibration 180 degrees out of phase.† (source)
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He sat by a newly-lighted wood fire (the blighted and unfruitful year was prematurely cold), and on his honest and courageous face there was a deeper shade than the pendent lamp could throw, or any object in the room distortedly reflect—a shade of horror.† (source)
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Her face was horribly distorted, her lips blue. (source)distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
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