{
    "term": "distort",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "distort",
            "heSheIt": "distorts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "distorted",
        "pastParticiple": "distorted",
        "ingForm": "distorting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to change the shape, appearance or sound of something so that it is strange or not clear",
            "sensetop": "distort something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fairground mirror that distorts your shape"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The loudspeaker seemed to distort his voice."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to change facts, ideas, etc. so that they are no longer correct or true",
            "sensetop": "distort something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Newspapers are often guilty of distorting the truth."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["grossly", "seriously", "severely"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːt/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distort__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːts/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distorts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːtɪd/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distorted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distorting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːrt/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distort__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːrts/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distorts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːrtɪd/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distorted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɔːrtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/distort/distorting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘twist to one side’): from Latin distort- ‘twisted apart’, from the verb distorquere, from dis- ‘apart’ + torquere ‘to twist’."
}