<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.</li><li>to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts.</li><li>Synonyms: misstate, falsify, twist, misconstrue, pervert</li><li>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.</li></ul>