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DISTORTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distortable mean?
• DISTORTABLE (adjective)
The adjective DISTORTABLE has 1 sense:
1. capable of having the meaning altered or twisted
Familiarity information: DISTORTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of having the meaning altered or twisted
Context example:
our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature
Similar:
changeable; changeful (such that alteration is possible; having a marked tendency to change)
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