Both Uses of
distort
in
1984 by Orwell
- The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it.†
p. 66..2
- He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles.†
p. 94..1 *
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way