All 4 Uses of
distort
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Since the receipt of the missive in the morning, Boldwood had felt the symmetry of his existence to be slowly getting distorted in the direction of an ideal passion.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- It radiated upwards into their faces, and sent over half the plantation gigantic shadows of both man and woman, each dusky shape becoming distorted and mangled upon the tree-trunks till it wasted to nothing.†
Chpt 22-24
- There was, so to speak, that symmetry in their distortion which is less the characteristic of British than of Continental grotesques of the period.†
Chpt 46-48
- Her statement of the fact in such quiet and simple words came with more force than a tragic declamation, and had somewhat the effect of setting the distorted images in each mind present into proper focus.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way