0 present participle of distort --
1 to change the shape of something so that it looks strange or unnatural: --
2 to change something so that it is false or wrong, or no longer means what it was intended to mean: --
3 to change or affect something, especially in a way that makes it worse: --
The government is actually distorting markets and undermining competition.
4 to make sound produced on electrical equipment sound strange and unpleasant because of changes in the shape of the sound wave: --
Linking government too closely to theatre production politicized it, he wrote, thereby ' ' distorting it for propaganda use.
We present a model of endogenous growth in which government consumption and production services are financed by distorting capital taxes.
An unequal distribution of capabilities is left intact, once the distorting effects of past social practices and treatable disease and impairment are addressed.
As the use of certificates expanded in the later sixteenth century, the distorting effect is probably significant.
Downes is at his most poetic here, bringing sophistication and urbanity, without distorting the movement's natural eloquence.
What if an evil genius were distorting arrays?
Although legislatures are surely subject to distorting influence in their choice of ends, they ordinarily are superior to courts as rulemaking bodies.
Increasing the impeller angle to = 10 (figure 15c) has the effect of significantly distorting the tori into asymmetric shapes.
