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 *distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
Definition:
to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way