All 7 Uses of
distort
in
Brave New World
- The children started, screamed; their faces were distorted with terror.
p. 21..2 *distorted = altered in an unnatural way
- A blubbered and distorted face confronted her; the creature was crying.
p. 119..6
- Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches.
p. 150..1undistorted = natural (well-shaped)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undistorted means not and reverses the meaning of distorted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Opening her eyes, she had seen his face–no, not his face, a ferocious stranger's, pale, distorted, twitching with some insane, inexplicable fury.
p. 194..3distorted = altered in an unnatural way
- At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.
p. 202..5
- Her face was horribly distorted, her lips blue.
p. 205..9distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- He kept his telescopic cameras carefully aimed–glued to their moving objective; clapped on a higher power to get a close-up of the frantic and distorted face...
p. 253..5distorted = altered in an unnatural way
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way