Both Uses of
distort
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand, and grinned through moving masks.†
Chpt 14distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- Shrill flaring gas-jets, dulled and distorted in the fly-blown mirrors that faced them, were ranged round the walls.†
Chpt 16 *
Definition:
to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way