Usually means: Release from twisted or distorted state.
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  1. detort: Merriam-Webster
  2. detort: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detort: Wordnik
  4. detort: Wiktionary
  5. Detort: Dictionary.com
  6. Detort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. detort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Detort: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. detort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. detort: FreeDictionary.org
  11. detort: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. Detort: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detort)

▸ verb:  (dated) to turn from the original or plain meaning
▸ verb:  (dated) to pervert
▸ verb:  (dated) to wrest

Similar:
de-toxify, dirty, detraditionalize, uncodify, undeform, detraditionalise, deturpate, denaturate, detoxify, deformat, more...

Opposite:
retort, twist, bend, warp, contort

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Similar:
de-toxify, dirty, detraditionalize, uncodify, undeform, detraditionalise, deturpate, denaturate, detoxify, deformat, more...

Opposite:
retort, twist, bend, warp, contort



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