Etymology

distort

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Today it means: To bring something out of shape, to misshape. Full definition →

Latin distortum
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromdistortum
  2. English todaydistort

Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).

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