All 3 Uses
distort
in
The Great Gatsby
(Edited)
- — either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things, because it didn't make any sense to me.
p. 29.9distorted = altered in an unnatural way
- Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old — even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
p. 176.5distortion = being unnatural or untrue
- After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction.
p. 176.9 *distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
Definitions:
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(1)
(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)