| NOUN | act | overrefinement, distortion, straining, torture, twisting | the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean |
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| Meaning | The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean. | |
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| Synonyms | distortion, straining, torture, twisting | |
| Broader | falsification, misrepresentation | A willful perversion of facts |
| Spanish | deformación, distorsión, torcimiento, torsión | |
| Catalan | deformació | |
| Verbs | overrefine | refine too much or with excess of subtlety |
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