distorts
- 1Third-person singular simple present of distort.
The funhouse mirror distorts every face into a wobbly, stretched shape.
Selective editing distorts what the witness actually said on the stand.
Note
The -s form keeps both of the verb's habits. Usually it takes an object, whether the thing bent is a face in a mirror or the truth in an account. It can also stand alone when something loses its own shape: the plastic distorts in the heat. Only the verb takes this ending; the obsolete adjective distort, meaning "misshapen", never could.
The soft plastic distorts as it heats.
The signal distorts whenever the volume is pushed too high.
distorts is a form of distort
distort, verb: To force or bend something out of its normal shape, making it misshapen. Full entry
- Forms
- distortdistorts he/she/itdistorting -ing formdistorted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- distort → distorts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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