[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed:Arthritis had distorted his fingers.", "to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent:to distort the facts.Synonyms: misstate , falsify , twist , misconstrue , pervert", "Electronics.to reproduce or amplify (a signal) inaccurately by changing the frequencies or unequally changing the delay or amplitude of the components of the output wave."]}]