Both Uses
distort
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
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- 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 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)