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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈstɔːt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /dɪˈstoɹt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈstoːt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /dəˈstoːt/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)t

動詞

distort (third-person singular simple present distorts, present participle distorting, simple past and past participle distorted)

1. (transitive) To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
   • 1902, Hilaire Belloc, The Path to Rome:

     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.

2. (intransitive, ergative) To become misshapen.
3. (transitive) To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.

   In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

同意語

• (to bring something out of shape): deform

派生語

関連する語

• distorted (adjective)
• distortion

形容詞

distort (comparative more distort, superlative most distort)

1. (obsolete) Distorted; misshapen.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 36:

     Her face was ugly and her mouth distort.