| 1. | to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers. |
| 2. | to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent: to distort the facts. |
| 3. | 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. |
