distort
Example Sentences
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Magnetic storms distort satellite signals; frigid temperatures drain batteries or freeze equipment in minutes; navigation systems lack reference points on snowfields.
But it establishes which artists, such as Masson, deeply explored Surrealism’s mysterious realms and which, such as Ernst, Magritte and Dalí, distorted its surfaces, as if in a funhouse mirror.
Many see them as artifacts of the long government shutdown, which halted the collection of data that go into those reports, severely distorting the results.
From Los Angeles Times
But doctors also give it to patients with other types of chronic pain, anxiety, migraines, insomnia, distorted sense of smell and hot flashes in menopause.
During the mass, Leo said Christmas was a feast of "faith, charity and hope" and criticised a "distorted economy" that "leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
