0 to change the shape of something so that it looks strange or unnatural: --
1 to change something so that it is false or wrong, or no longer means what it was intended to mean: --
2 to change or affect something, especially in a way that makes it worse: --
The government is actually distorting markets and undermining competition.
3 to make sound produced on electrical equipment sound strange and unpleasant because of changes in the shape of the sound wave: --
4 to change something from its natural or usual shape or condition: --
5 to change something from its original, natural, or intended meaning, condition, or shape, especially in a negative way: --
Critics said the speaker not only distorted the facts but unfairly criticized one of the city's great success stories.
These companies systematically distort the truth - by design.
They claim she deliberately distorted information and put families at risk.
Local prices may be distorted by trade barriers, sales taxes, or big differences in the cost of inputs such as rents.
Governments are able to maintain discriminatory procurement practices which significantly distort trade and reduce potential growth.
While the vortices in the upper row are swept along the edge with minor distortion, those in the lower row are rapidly distorted, or distended.
However, the internal dropout for these questions was small and therefore it is unlikely that it distorted the results.
The first is that given the small sample size, outliers may have distorted the results.
Further, these funds may distort compensation profiles and create incentives for the inclusion of overly risky assets in a pension portfolio.
In each case the fruit of this toxicity is something that is disjointed, distorted and disrupting.
The army's political power distorted rights protection and market fairness.
These are caused by atmospheric refraction, which distorts and magnifies distant objects.
Misspellings are harder to correct for spelling checkers, since they can distort the intended word in a more dramatic way than mis-typings.
