distorcere

Meaning

  1. (literary, transitive) to twist, to contort (a part of the body)
  2. (figuratively, transitive) to distort (a sentence, a sound, etc.)

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
di‧stòr‧ce‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/disˈtɔr.t͡ʃe.re/
Etymology

From dis- + torcere, or from Latin distorquēre, with conjugation based on torcere.

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