2 uses
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Definition
to alter something 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.Chapter 16 (35% in)
- 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.Chapter 14 (40% in)
There are no more uses of "distort" in The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version.
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