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Definition
to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- 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
- 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
There are no more uses of "distort" in 1984 by Orwell.
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