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
• looping
• spiraling
• coiling
• wrenching
• twining
• wringing
• wresting
• wreathing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straightening
• uncurling
• unbending

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of distorting

But attorneys for the group Defenders of Wildlife said the government was distorting the environmental law’s definition of a species by focusing only on the populations in Minnesota and the Northern Rockies. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026

The absurdist look at greed and climate change, reality and the distorting power of media, feckless world leaders and rapacious billionaires, struggled to get off the ground. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026

But the current state of geopolitics appears to be distorting what being open means. — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026

China’s aircraft engineers have warned that artificial intelligence could feed false data into military intelligence, potentially distorting the design and operation of advanced weapons. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2026

The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history. — Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

In November 2020, Lupe was in the final weeks of her pregnancy when dark spots began distorting her vision. — Carina Heckert, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

The least costly and least distorting way to solve the entire financing gap is to extend Social Security's base beyond paychecks to capital income -- capital gains, dividends, interest and pass-through business income. — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Is realism based only on minds untouched by illness or some other distorting factor, or at least not so touched that that mind becomes, as my grandmother’s is, unbound? — Literary Hub, 17 July 2026