📚 Distort, verb.
🔉 /dɪˈstɔːt/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (with object): Give a misleading or false account or impression of.
❗️ Examples:
1. Many factors can distort the results.
2. Many investors now distrust pension accounting because it distorts reported earnings.
3. In addition, the probability of the results being distorted by confounding factors has not been adequately addressed.
4. The nature of adulation does not distort his impression of reality.
5. The change in goodwill accounting also distorts year-over-year earnings comparisons in 2002 and 2003.
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