Reverse Dictionary: DISTORT

ADJECTIVES
► CAMPSHO  distorted, crooked → 1727 Sc.
► CAMSHACK ► CAMSHOCH distorted, crooked, awry; deformed → 1513 Sc.
► CRANK crooked, distorted; angularly twisted or bent → 1825 Sc.
► GOWDY swollen, distorted → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KAW-WAW distorted, crooked, twisted → 1859 Eng. dial.
► SHEVEL distorted, twisted → 1507 Sc.
► SKEW distorted, perverted; macaronic → 1607 obs.
► SOUR adj. wry; distorted → 1611
► SQUEEGEE distorted, damaged, rickety → 1959 Amer. dial.
► THRAWN distorted, twisted, misshapen; uneven; of the brow: knitted → 1721 Sc.
► THRAWN-FACED having distorted features; surly-faced → 1793 Sc.
► THRAWN-LIKE distorted → 1893 Sc.

NOUNS
► OBTORTION distortion, perversion, a twisting → a1656 obs.

VERBS
► CAMSHACHLE ► CAMSHACKLE to distort, to bend, to twist, to disorder → 1819 Sc.
► CUT A FLOURISH to distort the features, to make grimaces → 1811
► CUT AN ANTIC to distort the features, to make grimaces → 1835
► CUT FACES to distort the features, to make grimaces → 1665
► GASHLE to distort, to writhe → 1825 Sc.
► MONSTRIFY to make monstrous; to distort, to pervert → 1617 obs.
► OBLIQUATE to distort; to bend aside, to twist obliquely → 1665
► PULL A FACE to distort one’s features, to grimace → c1522
► RUNKLE to distort, to gnarl, to twist, to curl → 1722 Sc.
► SHEVEL to distort, to become distorted → 1725 Sc.
► THROW to distort, to pervert → 1835 Sc.
► TURKESS to transform or alter for the worse; to twist, to distort, to pervert → 1521 obs.
► TWERK to distort facts, etc., typically to make something appear more appealing or acceptable → 1999 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
► TWIST to distort; to pervert; to force a meaning from → 1821
► YIRN to distort the face; to make grimaces → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)