Synonyms of distorting

distorting

verb

present participle of distort

1

as in misrepresenting

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of

the coach's message was so distorted after passing through so many people that it was unintelligible

Synonyms & Similar Words

• misrepresenting
• twisting
• perverting
• falsifying
• obscuring
• misstating
• complicating
• misinterpreting
• slanting
• warping
• garbling
• censoring
• fudging
• cooking
• bending
• coloring
• confusing
• masking
• mistaking
• misrelating
• disguising
• camouflaging
• misdescribing
• dissembling
• whitewashing
• mistranslating
• veiling
• lying
• misspeaking
• mystifying
• belying
• bowdlerizing
• glossing (over)
• confounding
• prevaricating
• mixing (up)
• fibbing
• equivocating
• paltering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• interpreting
• explaining
• illustrating
• clarifying
• illuminating
• clearing (up)
• spelling out
• deciphering

2

as in deforming

to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition

if you keep distorting your face like that, someday it's going to freeze in that position

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deforming
• contorting
• screwing
• torturing
• curling
• warping
• misshaping
• disfiguring
• squinching
• defacing
• winding
• spiralling
• looping
• spiraling
• coiling
• wrenching
• twining
• wringing
• wresting
• wreathing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straightening
• uncurling
• unbending