All 3 Uses of
distort
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- At the first moment there had arisen from his poet's head, or, simply and prosaically, from his empty stomach, a mist, a vapor, so to speak, which, spreading between objects and himself, permitted him to catch a glimpse of them only in the incoherent fog of nightmare,—in those shadows of dreams which distort every outline, agglomerating objects into unwieldy groups, dilating things into chimeras, and men into phantoms.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- His brain was a peculiar medium; the ideas which passed through it issued forth completely distorted.†
Chpt 1.4.3 *distorted = altered in an unnatural or untrue way
- He writhed in his bonds; a violent contraction of surprise and pain distorted the muscles of his face, but he uttered not a single sigh.†
Chpt 1.6.4
Definition:
to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way