All 11 Uses
distort
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Doctor Zhivago
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- Suddenly her face was distorted with horror.†
Chpt 1.4 *distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- A door opened somewhere and two voices welled out, so distorted by echoes that it was impossible to tell whether men or women were speaking.†
Chpt 2.6
- He nursed his grievance and with it the ambition to judge between life and the dark forces that distorted it, and to be life's champion and avenger.†
Chpt 2.7
- Yurii Andreievich was sufficiently well read to suspect that Kubarikha's last words repeated the opening passage of an ancient chronicle, either of Novgorod or Epatievo, but so distorted by copyists and the sorcerers and bards who had transmitted them orally for centuries that its original meaning had been lost.†
Chpt 2.12
- In his imagination he saw them handed over to slow torture, watched their faces distorted by pain, and heard their groans and cries for help.†
Chpt 2.12
- I discovered life much too early, I was made to discover it, and I was made to see it from the very worst side-a cheap, distorted version of it-through the eyes of a selfassured, elderly parasite, who took advantage of everything and allowed himself whatever he fancied.†
Chpt 2.13
- I might have developed my own view of life if I hadn't, right from the beginning, seen it stamped in someone else's vulgar distortion.†
Chpt 2.13
- I have a feeling that you misjudge me, that you take an unkind view of me, that you see me as in a distorting mirror.†
Chpt 2.13
- Now he was himself swayed by the impulse to unmask himself, to reappraise his whole life, to draw up a balance sheet, while monstrously distorting everything in his feverish excitement.†
Chpt 2.14
- Then her name was distorted by city people who introduced a connotation closer to their recent experiences.†
Chpt 2.16distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- Distorted shadows fell
Upon the lighted ceiling:
Shadows of crossed arms, of crossed legs—
Of crossed destiny.†Chpt 2.17
Definitions:
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(1)
(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)