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Shew vs Distort - What's the difference?

shew | distort |

As verbs the difference between shew and distort

is that shew is (label) or shew can be (label) (show) while distort is to bring something out of shape.

As a noun shew

is (label) a show.

As an adjective distort is

(obsolete) distorted; misshapen.

shew

English

Verb

  • (label)
  • * , Genesis 12:1
  • * , Ruth 2:19
  • * {{quote-book, year= 1774, by= (Le Page Du Pratz), title= The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=zEoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42, chapter= The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men., publisher= T. Becket
  • , location= London, page= 42, passage= I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.}}
  • * 1786 : Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page xiv.
  • * 1843 : '', Book 2, Ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
  • * 1884 : '', Sec. 4, ''Concerning the Women
  • *
  • * 1921 : Marcel Proust translated by C. K. Moncrieff, Swann's Way , page 1.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (label) (show)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A show.
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * distorter

    Adjective

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