distort
verb (used with object)
to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed.
had been distorting
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past perfect progressiveof distort.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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It was almost as if some one had torn down a curtain from before her eyes, rent asunder a veil which had been distorting and obscuring the values of things.
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
