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Damage vs Distort - What's the difference?

damage | distort |

As verbs the difference between damage and distort

is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while distort is to bring something out of shape.

As a noun damage

is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

As an adjective distort is

(obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

damage

English

(wikipedia damage)

Noun

  • Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
    • The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
  • (slang) Cost or expense.
    • "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.

    Verb

    (damag)
  • To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
    • Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
  • * Clarendon
    • He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

    distort

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring something out of shape.
  • (ergative) To become misshapen.
  • To give a false or misleading account of
    • In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

    Related terms

    * distorted (pos a) * distortion

    Derived terms

    * distorter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) distorted; misshapen
  • * Spenser
    • Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .