Both Uses of
distort
in
The War of the Worlds
- That night nearly forty people lay under the starlight about the pit, charred and distorted beyond recognition, and all night long the common from Horsell to Maybury was deserted and brightly ablaze.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- They gibber and grow fiercer, paler, uglier, mad distortions of humanity at last, and I wake, cold and wretched, in the darkness of the night.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way