Both Uses of
distort
in
Main Street
- They are parched and cramped, the lines of their hands filled with grime; they go to sleep curled in distorted attitudes, heads against the window-panes or propped on rolled coats on seat-arms, and legs thrust into the aisle.†
Chpt 3 *
- She commented upon the sloping roof of unplastered boards stained in brown rings by the rain, the uneven floor, the cot and its tumbled discouraged-looking quilts, the broken rocker, the distorting mirror.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way