When you look at yourself in a shiny spoon, your face looks funny, right? That’s because the spoon distorts the way your face looks. Distort means changing the way something is supposed to be. It’s like when you make a silly face in the mirror and your nose looks bigger or your eyes look squished.

Think of a balloon. When you blow it up, it stretches and changes shape. If you draw a smiley face on it, the face can look all wiggly and funny. That’s another way to understand distort. The balloon changes the picture you drew.

Now, imagine you have a piece of clay. You can squish it and pull it into different shapes. The clay distorts from a ball into a snake or a pancake. This shows how something can change from its original shape into something new.

Even sounds can be distorted. If you talk through a fan, your voice sounds all wobbly and different. That’s because the fan is changing how your voice travels. Distorting can happen to many things, not just how they look, but also how they sound.