All 9 Uses
distort
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass.†
Chpt Prol. *
- Beside me, the student's eyes swam with a distorting cataract of tears, his features rigid as though he struggled within himself.†
Chpt 5
- I had kept unswervingly to the path placed before me, had tried to be exactly what I was expected to be, had done exactly what I was expected to do-yet, instead of winning the expected reward, here I was stumbling along, holding on desperately to one of my eyes in order to keep from bursting out my brain against some familiar object swerved into my path by my distorted vision.†
Chpt 6distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- —"You're like one of these African sculptures, distorted in the interest of a design.†
Chpt 20
- A buttermilk white eye distorted by the light rays.†
Chpt 22
- Her face was distorted as she stamped her high heels and screamed.†
Chpt 23
- The mirrored facade of one store on 125th Street was smashed and I passed to see a group of boys watching their distorted images as they danced before the jagged glass.†
Chpt 24
- I sent out members to mingle with crowds and try to discourage any further violence and sent an open letter to all the press denouncing them for "distorting" and inflating minor incidents.†
Chpt 24
- The moon was high now and before me the shattered glass glittered in the street like the water of a flooded river upon the surface of which I ran as in a dream, avoiding by fate alone the distorted objects washed away by the flood.†
Chpt 25distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
Definitions:
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(1)
(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)