All 6 Uses
distort
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East of Eden
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- The identity of the distortion came to him slowly.†
Chpt 3 *
- In the morning a rumor ran through the town, distorted here and there, added to, but by afternoon the story clarified.†
Chpt 8distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- Olive saw his goggled face and the slip stream caught his word and distorted it.†
Chpt 14
- The evil and ugly, the distorted and slimy, the worst things humans can think up are for sale there.†
Chpt 24
- But she did know that the square white door was distorted by tears and that her body shook with something that felt like rage and also felt like sorrow.†
Chpt 31
- Sometimes she tried to think of other things, even unpleasant ones, to drive the pain and the distorted fingers from her mind.†
Chpt 45
Definitions:
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(1)
(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)