refract

[ri-frakt] / rɪˈfrækt /

VERB

bend

Synonyms

STRONG

angle arch bow buckle camber careen circle contort crimp crinkle crook crouch curl deflect deform detour double droop flex genuflect hook incline incurvate lean loop pervert round spiral stoop swerve tilt turn twist veer verge warp waver wilt wind yaw zigzag

WEAK

angle away angle off

Antonyms

STRONG

beautify rise smooth straighten

Example Sentences

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In Will Self’s novel, the same scenes and characters are refracted in every chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Self has great fun refracting the details of who did what to whom and where.

From The Wall Street Journal

Eventually, the trapped sound was refracted back down to the ground, sometimes hundreds of miles away.

From Literature

To work around this, I decided to use a 'star filter' - a layer of glass attached to the front of the lens that refracts light in a specific way.

From BBC

It’s enough to make a reader hanker for a volume devoted to the director’s long working relationship with Head or for a filmography refracted through the actresses he obsessed over and glorified.

From The Wall Street Journal